School safety and classroom disciplinary climate have a direct impact on teachers' ability to teach and students …' ability to learn. School safety and classroom disciplinary climates have been declining in the Middle East and North Africa … disrupted learning environments, at the school and classroom levels, in the Middle East and North Africa region and to uncover …

scores among upper secondary school students from poor backgrounds. The identification strategy is the random allocation into … secondary school. An important policy implication is that a well-targeted scholarship program should be complemented with a …

, assessments of children before school age, conducted in a nation's official language, may not fully reflect a child's development …

This paper presents the results of a field experiment in rural Sindh, Pakistan, where half of the school-age children … (ages 6-10 years) are out of school. The study tests simple and low-intensity approaches to strengthen engagement of … reduced; however, teacher absenteeism increased, and there was no substantial impact on basic school infrastructure. Elections …

Why do some students learn more in some schools than others? One consideration receiving growing attention is school … management. To study this, researchers need to be able to measure school management accurately and cheaply at scale, and also … explain any observed relationship between school management and student learning. This paper introduces a new approach to …

students' school participation and academic performance over two years, while also examining heterogeneous impacts and ….7 percent in the second), reducing gender gaps in school retention. The findings show large learning gains of 0.323 standard … gender. There were also large effects on school management outcomes, increasing the number of meetings by 16 percent and the …

Students around the world are going to school but are not learning-an emerging gap in human capital formation. To …

method. In other words, over the course of a business-as-usual school year, students learn between 0.15 and 0.21 standard …

educational attainment. Nevertheless, little evidence exists on whether increases in time spent in school have led to higher … learning in the context of the poor areas where PROSPERA principally operates, which tend to have overall low school quality … also confirms large effects on enrollment in secondary and high school, using administrative school enrollment data rather …

Access to school has risen dramatically in recent decades, with large gains from reducing costs. Few studies report …-of-pocket schooling costs for children in poor communities in Kenya by providing school uniforms. The program used a lottery to determine … who would receive a school uniform. Receiving a uniform reduced school absenteeism by 37 percent for the average student …