, nutrition, cognitive development, learning and educational access and achievement. All the common worm infections in school …

The study sought to assist governments in introducing school-focused programming into reforms of primary education. The … educational effectiveness; (ii) the preparation of a user-friendly framework of factors that determine school effectiveness; and … (iii) the development of a methodology for helping African educators define and prioritize school-based definitions and …

exacerbated by the need to ensure a suitable range of subject expertise among the teachers at a school …

-country and panel regressions, this paper finds an extremely robust negative partial correlation between secondary school … is a robust determinant of differences in secondary school enrollment between countries, but not within countries, which …

impact of a program that gives scholarships to girls making the transition between the last year of primary school and the … first year of secondary school in Cambodia. They show that the scholarship program had a large, positive effect on the … school enrollment and attendance of girls. Their preferred set of estimates suggests program effects on enrollment and …

school network has witnessed an impressive expansion since the signing of the Peace Agreement in 1992. Enrollments in lower … teachers, and the number of school shifts and of daily hours of instruction, have improved only marginally. Given that … informal school fees, and on the potential impact of a fee reduction, or the elimination of fees on the demand for schooling …

This study discusses secondary textbook and school library availability in Africa, its cost and financing, and its …. Reforms are urgently required in the secondary school systems of most African countries in order to: (a) reduce the number of … Botswana where a tiny but reliable and reasonably predictable secondary school sector has five competing approved textbooks in …

teachers' competence, facilitating school management, inspection, planning and data gathering. This is being achieved by … involving stakeholders at all levels in the process of primary school improvement. The National Primary Education Commission …

"This paper estimates the relationship between family background, school characteristics, and student achievement in … primary school in two Latin American countries, Argentina and Colombia, as well as several comparison countries. The database … is strongly related to students' family background, weakly to some institutional school features, and hardly to schools …

"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 participation was 30 percent higher in the treatment group than in the …