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education policy literature. This study seeks to identify the good policies and practices that lead students in some municipal …The importance of education to the socioeconomic and political development of nations is widely discussed in the … education policy factors that appeared to help some municipal school systems obtain better-than-expected Prova Brasil results …
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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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"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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Policymakers and development experts seeking to improve the quality of education are interested in the role technology … can play. Not only do they want to use technology to directly aid learning, but they also want to ensure that students in … developing countries - and poor communities everywhere - get the same exposure, and same education benefit, from technology as do …
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experience, a government program supported by the World Bank's Cambodia education sector support project was launched in such a …
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system; monitoring trends in education quality over time; supporting educators and students with real-time information to …In 2009, Zambia joined the Russia Education Aid for Development (READ) trust fund program, the goal of which is to help … Better Education Results (SABER) program. SABER is an evidence-based program to help countries systematically examine and …
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accountability and advocate incentivizing teachers by linking their pay to either their own efforts or their students’ learning …
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"This paper analyzes the relationship between whether a young person has a disability, the poverty status of their household, and their school participation using 11 household surveys from nine developing countries. Between 1 and 2 percent of the population is identified as having a disability....
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' fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more education. It provides provide a rigorous test of the diffusion on of fertility … norms from migrants to their country of origin: a one percent decrease in the fertility norm to which migrants are exposed …
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