share of children lacking important reading skills by socio-economic background. …

proportion of children studying in a school with a principal by 0.1, and increased the number of teachers in a village by 0.7. I …I study the impact of school consolidation on enrolment and achievement, using its staggered roll-out in the Indian … also find that consolidation increased school enrolment in a village by 2 per cent- in particular, girls' enrolment …

This essay explores the post-Parents Involved options available to local school boards that continue to face the … Court’s lack of deference towards the Seattle and Louisville school districts’ stated goals for adopting the voluntary … higher education affirmative action cases by refusing to give deference to the policy choices of the local school officials …

In 2008, about 12 percent of five- to fifteen-year-old children were not in school, five years later this had gone down ….45 percent in 2013. In this paper, we examine this decline in the proportion of out-of-school children and improved primary … program that requires families under the program to send their children to school. These three broad public programs to invest …