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The World Bank is committed to assisting developing countries raise their educational standards, part of the United Nations millennium development goals. The work includes supporting projects that explore how best to support children staying in school. One recent project was in Cambodia, where...
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"Financial aid to students in tertiary education can contribute to human capital accumulation through two channels … different control group. Empirical results suggest that SOFES recipients show better academic performance than students without …, since the impacts also could reflect (self-) selection of students. This paper--a product of the Human Development Sector …
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,000 active borrowers or 23 percent of the 940,000 students in pre-grado. Even as the annual number of new beneficiaries levels … higher education, taking into account the effectiveness of targeting qualified but financially needy students and its … remaining parts of the chapter focus on CAE's stakeholder's students, tertiary education institutions, financial entities, and …
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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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education policy literature. This study seeks to identify the good policies and practices that lead students in some municipal …
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can play. Not only do they want to use technology to directly aid learning, but they also want to ensure that students in …. Researchers suggested this could be because teachers and students mainly used the computers to learn how to use computers, instead …
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Educators and education policy makers are concerned with creating the best possible learning environment for students … subject of policy debates in many parts of the world. Should teachers be paid more? Can students be rewarded for good test …
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"Microfinance has been heralded as an effective way to address imperfections in credit markets. But from a theoretical perspective, the success of microfinance contracts has puzzling elements. In particular, the group-based mechanisms often employed are vulnerable to free-riding and collusion,...
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