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

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 …

"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 …

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 …

"Using data from Indonesia, Newhouse and Beegle to evaluate the impact of school type on academic achievement of junior … secondary school students (grades 7-9). Students that graduate from public junior secondary schools, controlling for a variety …