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Over the last decade, the Government of the Philippines has embarked on an ambitious education reform program to ensure … investment in the sector. As a result, access to basic education has increased, particularly for the poorest households, and the … overall learning environment has improved. While these improvements have halted a long-term decline in education sector …
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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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This study on Assessment of mathematics education in Sub Saharan African countries is in support of the efforts to … improve mathematics education in the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The study is in response to a growing recognition … methods. Chapter 2 explores the economic and social arguments for making the improvement of mathematics education in the …
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The standard summary metric of education-based human capital used in macro analyses-the average number of years of …) its virtues of simplicity and transparency make it a good candidate summary measure of education …
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paper measures how life expectancy at birth affects lifetime education and earnings. On average, individuals add one year of …
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intergenerational persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's education because of credit market imperfections …
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This study seeks to examine gender gaps and disability issues in education in Indonesia, and to suggest policy actions … progress on gender parity in education; however, the national averages mask important variations at the subnational level … challenges and offers policy recommendations to ensure inclusivity in education for children with disabilities …
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This paper evaluates the academic impact of a growth-mindset intervention on students starting the secondary level in public schools in urban Peru. Expande tu Mente is a 90-minute school session aimed at instilling the notion that a person's own intelligence is malleable. Students in schools...
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In the past decade, hundreds of impact evaluation studies have measured the learning outcomes of education … difficult to communicate to policy makers beyond education specialists. This paper proposes two approaches to demonstrate the … individual earnings and poverty reduction, and that conversion into a non-education metric should help policy makers and non …
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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 region, as is demonstrated in this paper using data from...
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