Education has been given high priority by India’s central and state governments and continues to grow fast. School … access has been expanded by investment in school infrastructure and recruitment of teachers. In higher education too, the … number of providers continues to rise rapidly. A new law enshrining the rights of all children to free and compulsory …

In 2012 the Philippines launched its "K to 12" Program, a comprehensive reform of its basic education. Through this … reform, the Philippines is catching up with global standards in secondary education and is attaching a high value to … in order to promote poverty alleviation and human development in the Philippines. …

on the primary school exit examination. Exploiting variation in pre-program dropout rates between districts, we find that … the program increased the number of students who completed primary school, spurred private school entry, and increased … educational access without substantially reducing the test scores of students who would have been in school in the absence of the …

emanating from the school or institutional environment. Using pooled data as well as cross sectional evidence we look at the … educational outcomes. Institutional variables also matter – notably student–teacher ratios and indicators of school autonomy – but …

rural areas. This education expansion affected tens of millions of children who reached secondary school age in the late …

learning outcomes inside the school. However, in the third intervention, youth volunteered to teach camps, and children who …: providing information on existing institutions, training community members in a testing tool for children, and training … volunteers to hold remedial reading camps. These interventions had no impact on community involvement, teacher effort, or …

We show that a short-term (31 day) reading program, designed to provide age-appropriate reading material, to train … teachers in their use, and to support teachers' initial efforts for about a month improves students' reading skills by 0 …, probably due to a reduced emphasis on reading after the program. We find that the program also encourages students to read more …

country. We exploit the random variation generated by the centralized school admissions process in a regression discontinuity … test scores in secondary school. Despite their reputations, we find little evidence of positive impacts on learning …