School health and nutirion programs can contribue to achieving the goals of the Education for All initiative (EFA) by … helping children enroll on time, complete their education, and realize their cognitive potential. Achieving these goals … programs reach them. This book describes how schools have been used as a platform for delivering safe and simple heal …

greater for girls, yielding a very substantial reduction in gender inequalities in access to education. Significantly, though …"Inequalities in access to education pose a significant barrier to development. It has been argued that this reflects …

"There has not been much change in the premium to primary education, while the returns to secondary education increased …

is strongly related to students' family background, weakly to some institutional school features, and hardly to schools … urban areas. A specific Colombian feature is the lack of significant differences between gender performance. Nonnative … schools with a centralized curriculum and ability-based class formation. "--World Bank web site …

comparison group. The meals program led to higher curriculum test scores, but only in schools where the teacher was relatively … incentives, teacher absenteeism remained at a high level of 30 percent. Treatment schools raised their fees, and comparison … schools close to treatment schools decreased their fees. Some of the price effects are caused by a combination of capacity …

Pakistani religious schools, commonly known as madrassas. Given the importance placed on the subject by policymakers in Pakistan … landscape in Pakistan has changed substantially in the past decade, but this is due to an explosion of private schools, an … important fact that has been left out of the debate on Pakistani education. Moreover, when the authors look at school choice …