Sri Lanka is increasingly seeking to ensure that its public school system not only delivers greater shares of students …

School enrollment has universally increased over the past 25 years in low-income countries. However, enrolling in … school does not guarantee that children learn. A large share of children in low-income countries learn little, and they …

matter knowledge of primary school teachers in Indonesia is low on average and that a 1.0, but also a 2.0 standard deviation …. Second, the paper presents the results of three types of value-added regressions, a (standard) level specification, a school … 0.50) student-level standard deviations by the time students complete the six-year primary school cycle …

This paper examines inequality patterns of school and teacher resources as well as student performance in the … Philippines. School and teacher resources, measured by pupil classroom and teacher ratios and per-pupil teacher salary, became …

This working paper presents a benchmarking analysis of School Based Management (SBM) using empirical data from the … Philippines. School based management is widely used as a policy tool in many countries that seek to improve the quality of service … delivery through decentralization. School based management typically takes many years to have an impact on educational outcomes …

selection, it found that students in eighth grade mathematics achieve more in both types of private school than they do in …

This paper examines the full-time school program in Rio de Janeiro's municipal schools. The program, called as the … education provision by creating a diverse curriculum for the use of the extra time in school. Unlike the model prevalent in most … Brazilian public schools, in which the school day is divided in two shifts of four to five hours each, Single-Shift schools …

This paper uses a unique dataset of both public and private sector primary school teachers and their students to … the 5th to the 95th percentile in the public school TVA distribution would increase mean student test scores by 0 …

effective teaching practices in primary school classrooms, with special focus on evidence from low- and middle-income countries …