. Assigning more students to better teachers would potentially lead to substantial cost-savings, even if there are negative class …In many low-income countries, teachers do not master the subject they are teaching, and children learn little while … data on students are not available. The paper shows that data on test scores of the student's current and the previous year …

matter knowledge of primary school teachers in Indonesia is low on average and that a 1.0, but also a 2.0 standard deviation … increase in teachers'subject matter knowledge seem to be achievable medium-term goals for education policy making in Indonesia … deviation increase in teachers'subject matter knowledge across-the-board can yield increases in student achievement by 0.25 (and …

-grouping students by age in the sample can improve math and science test scores by roughly 0.1 standard deviations. According to past …

72,000 students in 61 schools. This paper assesses the performance of Fe y Alegria secondary schools in Colombia using … students belong. Simple statistics suggest that Fe y Alegria schools perform worse than other schools for all years in the … sample. However, Fe y Alegria schools also cater to poorer students who come from disadvantaged backgrounds. Once controls …

potential to raise program pertinence while allowing the prioritization of investments in teachers and students with the … properly address teachers'skills gaps. This paper proposes a roadmap for improving the design of in-service teacher training in …

historical evidence from developed economies. The students of today are the teachers of tomorrow … importance of a supply-side factor -- the availability of low-cost teachers -- and the resulting ability of the market to offer …, for villages that received a GSS, there are over twice as many educated women and that private school teachers' wages are …

The time teachers spend teaching is low in several developing countries. However, improving teacher effort has proven … difficult. Why is it so difficult to increase teacher effort? One possibility is that teachers are resistant to increasing … absenteeism, accountability, and student learning. This paper explores this idea using data from 16,000 teachers across eight …

teacher effort, knowledge, and skills. Averaging across countries, the paper finds that students receive two hours and fifty … minutes of teaching per day?or just over half the scheduled time. In addition, large shares of teachers do not master the … curricula of the students they are teaching; basic pedagogical knowledge is low; and the use of good teaching practices is rare …

Vietnamese students may be approaching their studies with higher diligence and discipline, their parents may have higher … expectations, and the parents may be following up with teachers regarding those expectations. The teachers themselves may be … working in a more disciplined environment, with tabs being kept on their own performance as teachers. Vietnam may also be …