The single biggest influence on educational outcomes is the home. After the parent, the next most important factor is the teacher. Sustained - a few years with a good teacher can make a difference which...
The Results in Education for All Children (REACH) Trust Fund supports and disseminates research on the impact of results-based financing on learning outcomes. The EVIDENCE series highlights REACH grants...
Countries around the world face the challenge of staffing schools in rural areas, schools with high concentrations of low-income students, or schools with other disadvantages. This is a challenge in high...
Over the last 10 years, a special cadre of middle-level management known as Resource Persons (RPs) was specifically created in India for carrying out teacher mentoring and monitoring activities. Despite...
Parental involvement programs aim to increase school-and-parent communication and support children's overall learning environment. This paper examines the effects of low-cost, group-based parental involvement...
Thrown off by the discovery that teacher certification was not as well correlated to student performance on the national exam as initially believed, the government MELAYANI team in Belu district set out...
Thrown off by the discovery that teacher certification was not as well correlated to student performance on the national exam as initially believed, the government MELAYANI team in Belu district set out...
This paper presents the results of a field experiment in rural Sindh, Pakistan, where half of the school-age children (ages 6-10 years) are out of school. The study tests simple and low-intensity approaches...
Many developing countries have invested substantial resources in expanding their primary and secondary education systems, resulting in large gains in the number of students completing basic education...
The Government of Indonesia has introduced many reforms to improve the quality of education but learning outcomes have continued to lag. Improving the quality of education has been especially challenging...
This study reviews the implementation of the TKD program related to teachers in DKI Jakarta to identify any initial behavior changes resulting from the policy. The objective of the study is twofold: to...
This document presents the first known systematic effort to assess the quality of the data gathered by MoEC and MoRA. To assess the accuracy of the data, unannounced visits were conducted to a representative...