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"Single-Shift" schools (Turno Unico), extends the time students spend in municipal schools and seeks to improve the quality of … education provision by creating a diverse curriculum for the use of the extra time in school. Unlike the model prevalent in most … provide education in a format in which students attend a seven-hour daily shift. A subset of Single-Shift schools was …
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, a significant share of students in low- and middle-income countries are still not able to read, write, or do basic …
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display effective practices, as measured by Teach, are associated with students who achieve higher learning outcomes …
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This paper uses a combination of survey questions to instructors and data collected from course syllabi and examinations to examine how the subject of development economics is taught at the undergraduate and masters levels in developing countries, and benchmark this against undergraduate classes...
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university students in Tunisia, this paper studies the medium-term impacts of entrepreneurship education four years after … students' graduation. The paper complements earlier evidence that documented small, short-term impacts on entry into self …
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potential to raise program pertinence while allowing the prioritization of investments in teachers and students with the …
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This paper studies the relative academic performance of students tracked or randomly assigned to South African … university dormitories. Tracked or streamed assignment creates dormitories where all students obtained similar scores on high … of students. Tracking lowers students' mean grades in their first year of university and increases the variance or …
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more than 8 percent. The analysis also provides evidence that students are willing to pay a premium of about 4 percent of …
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historical evidence from developed economies. The students of today are the teachers of tomorrow …
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earthquake of January 2010, just 19 percent of primary school students were enrolled in public schools, with the remainder … determinant of attendance. Given these findings, the authors conclude that in the near-term paying school fees for poor students …
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