, school evaluation and school system evaluation. It has been developed using the majority of key design principles recommended … their communities, school development planning processes are also monitored as part of external school evaluation by a … entirely school based, but there is a set of common competence standards for teachers. …

We conduct the first national study of the causal impact of school spending and local taxes on housing prices by … pairing variation induced by school finance reforms with 25 years of national data on housing prices. Our analysis speaks to … two classic questions in economics: whether school spending matters and whether it is provided at efficient levels. The …

education they receive. School enrollment rates have increased dramatically in developing counties since 1960, but many children … still leave school at a young age and often learn little while in school. This chapter reviews recent research on the impact …