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Does Linking Teacher Pay to Student Performance Improve Results?
World Bank - 2012
Educators and education policy makers are concerned with creating the best possible learning environment for students. How to do this, especially in primary school, where reading, writing and mathematical skills are first acquired, is the subject of policy debates in many parts of the world....
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No more cutting class? : reducing teacher absence and providing incentives for performance
Rogers, F. Halsey - 2009
"Expanding and improving basic education in developing countries requires, at a minimum, teachers who are present in the classroom and motivated to teach, but this essential input is often missing. This paper describes the findings of a series of recent World Bank and other studies on teacher...
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Quality of schooling and quality of schools for indigenous students in Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru
Hernandez-Zavala, Martha (contributor) - 2006
score data for 3rd and 4th year primary school pupils in Guatemala and Peru, and 5th grade pupils in Mexico, the authors … assess the magnitude of the indigenous and non-indigenous test score gap and identify the main family and school inputs … by family and school characteristics is between 41 and 75 percent of the overall test-score gap. Furthermore, family …
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School meals, educational achievement, and school competition : evidence from a randomized evaluation
Kremer, Michael - 2005
"Vermeersch and Kremer examine the effects of subsidized school meals on school participation, educational achievement, and school finance in a developing country setting. They use data from a program that was implemented in 25 randomly chosen preschools in a pool of 50. Children's school...
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Bulgaria : Teachers
World Bank - 2014
Bulgaria implemented sweeping decentralization and efficiency-focused reforms in basic education in 2007 and 2008. The education system adjusted to the negative demographic trends by optimizing the network of schools (closing and merging schools), introducing per-capita based financing and...
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The Case of Tanzania With Malawi and the Gambia
World Bank - 2023
Teachers are the single most important input to learning, and in many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa teachers' emoluments account for most of the spending on basic education (Bold et al., 2017). However, in many countries in the region teachers are poorly distributed between schools. Schools in...
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Inside Indonesia's Mathematics Classrooms : A TIMSS Video Study of Teaching Practices and Student Achievement
World Bank - 2012
The following report is the first of a two-stage video study to examine teaching practices and activities in Indonesian classrooms. The first stage is linked to results of the 2007 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) where 100 of the 150 classes that participated in the...
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Different Paths to Student Learning : Good Practices and Student Performance - Identifying Success from Municipal School Systems in Brazil
World Bank - 2012
The importance of education to the socioeconomic and political development of nations is widely discussed in the education policy literature. This study seeks to identify the good policies and practices that lead students in some municipal school systems in Brazil to obtain better results than...
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Tanzania Country Brief
World Bank - 2009
The World Bank is in the initial stages of developing a new annual series of World Bank Country Briefs. Tanzania- the …
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Private health sector assessment in Tanzania
White, James - World Bank - 2013
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