Understanding whether wide-ranging education reforms effectively improve learning outcomes is of crucial importance in many low and middle-income countries…

Why do some students learn more in some schools than others? One consideration receiving growing attention is school management. To study this, researchers…

Most countries in sub-Saharan Africa have not implemented testing of children’s learning that can be benchmarked regionally or globally. In contrast, in the…

This study provides a rare ground-level picture of the interactions around schooling among parents, teachers, district-level brokers, as well as village…

Accountability is rightly at the center of the conversation regarding how to improve governance systems, particularly health and education systems. But…

The basic theoretical and practical issue facing the RISE…

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for education include the goal that "all youth...achieve literacy and numeracy" (Target 4.6). Achieving some…

In 2013, Tanzania introduced “Big Results Now in Education”, a low-stakes accountability program that published both nationwide and within-district school…

Indonesia has instituted wide-ranging educational reforms over the past twenty years, but recent international assessments of student learning indicate that…

School systems regularly use student assessments for accountability purposes. But, as highlighted by our conceptual model, different configurations of…

We experimentally compare two modes of in-service professional development for South African public primary school teachers. In both programs teachers…

We test for financial constraints as a market failure in education in a low-income country by experimentally allocating unconditional cash grants to either…

Can governments contract out the management of schools to private operators at scale? This paper estimates the effect of a school reform in Punjab, Pakistan…