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

improve school effectiveness. The first volume is followed by a second volume detailing the study results, and a third …

This book aims to contribute to the World Bank's education agenda by communicating research findings on the impact of … mere access to education, is what impacts economic growth. These world-renowned researchers use data on economic growth and …

Caribbean Region"--World Bank web site …

driving the returns to schooling, which increased significantly in Argentina from 1992 to 2002. "--World Bank web site …

"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 …

School health and nutirion programs can contribue to achieving the goals of the Education for All initiative (EFA) by … depends on reaching the children most in need. One strong feature of school health and nutrition programs is that they benefit …

school systems in Brazil to obtain better results than would be expected based purely on socioeconomic factors. This report … education policy factors that appeared to help some municipal school systems obtain better-than-expected Prova Brasil results …