This paper reviews the effectiveness and efficiency of key policy instruments for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). Based on a simple cross-country regression analysis, the paper argues that average Millennium Development Goal progress is likely to be too slow to meet...

The 2003 PISA Korea sample is used to examine the association between within-school ability tracking and mathematics achievement. Estimates of a variety of econometric models reveal that tracking is positively associated with mathematics achievement among females and that this association...

El Teaching Goals Inventory (TGI; Angelo & Cross, 1993) evalúa objetivos de enseñanza, facilita la concientización de los profesores respecto a los objetivos de sus prácticas docentes, ayuda a especificar técnicas de evaluación, y provee un punto de partida para discutir los objetivos de...

This paper estimates the effect of school-based management on student performance in the Philippines using the administrative dataset of all public schools in 23 school districts over a 3-year period, 2003-2005. The authors test whether schools that received early school-based management...