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In 2015, students from more than 72 countries and economies participated in PISA, an international assessment. Administered every three years by the OECD, PISA measures the skills of 15 year-old students in applying their knowledge of science, reading, and math to real life problems. PISA...
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strengthen school-based management in the Philippines. Over the past five years, funds that the government has provided directly …
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The Ministry of Education of Peru (MINEDU), through the General Directorate for School Infrastructure (DIGEIE …), prepared the National School Infrastructure Plan to 2025 (PNIE). Within this framework, the MINEDU commissioned the National … Institute of Statistics and Information (INEI) with carrying out the School Infrastructure Census (CIE) which started on …
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This study aims to provide guidance to the Government of Sierra Leone in how to translate investments in education into quality learning. It centers on teachers, the single most important predictor of the quality of an education system. Joyful, rigorous, and focused learning happens when...
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and measuring the quality of teaching instruction can be used as a guide for school leadership programs, teacher …
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This note attempts to identify the factors associated with differences in overall school performance and efficiency. It … between public spending and education outcomes. The note found that school performance is related to several of these key … factors including school governance and school infrastructure. It also found that student and school characteristics, school …
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Gender equality is a core development objective, and it is also a smart development policy. Gender equality is also a key pathway to ensure lasting poverty reduction and shared prosperity. Identifying the main gender gaps a country faces across different domains, contributes to better inform...
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scope of the improvements in education outcomes over the last decade. High school completion rates remain low compared with … when they leave school. The purpose of this note is to investigate whether the recent increases in the financing for basic …
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Gender equality is a core development objective in its own right, and it is also smart economics. Greater gender equality pays off by helping advance a host of development goals, such as improvements in children's health and education and better labor outcomes for adults, at the same time...
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In this note, we examine how Cambodian youth's test score performance during lower secondary relates to their success several years later as they transition from schooling to work. Specifically, we explore the association between cognitive skills measured using math and vocabulary test scores...
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