From the mid-1950s to the 1960s, the Government of Peru undertook a major expansion of public education, increasing the number of schools, requiring primary schools that offered an incomplete cycle to add grades, and increasing school inputs (principally teachers and textbooks). The paper...

What makes one school more effective than another - particularly which inputs and management practices most efficiently enhance student achievement - has become the center of lively debate in the literature. Which method to use to compare school effects particularly concerns analysts. The model...

This paper examines the efficacy of vocational school education in relation to that of the academic secondary school; the focus is on non-postsecondary school attenders. Given the relatively small fraction of youth that attend, and complete, tertiary education in developing countries,...

This paper looks at the effect of post-school training on employment and wage opportunities of urban women. Attendance in post-school training programs is extensive. The more schooling a women has, the more likely she is to receive job training. Post-school training generally increases a woman's...

Management is a major weakness of rural school supervision systems. Management systems for rural schools should emphasize regular school visits by trained specialists whose task is to help rural teachers with teaching skills and rural principals with routine administrative tasks. The author...

This study of Form Three (ninth grade) students in Nigeria indicates that single sex schools improve girls'achievement in mathematics and engender less stereotypic ideas about mathematics. But Nigerian males experience lower achievement and hold a more stereotypic view of mathematics under...

Relatively few developing countries have established a sustainble capacity for educational monitoring and evaluation. As a result, the efforts of governments and assistance agencies to improve education have been hampered by lack of information on outcomes and costs. World Bank experience with...

China has embarked on a series of reforms designed to improve the efficiency of productive enterprises through the introduction of elements of a competitive market economy. Vocational and technical education and training (VTE) is to be expanded and improved to meet the skilled labor requirements...

Cote d'Ivoire spends more of its budget (42 percent) on education than any other country in the world. The purpose of this paper is to present an economic assessment of vocational and technical education (VTE) within the country. This assessment takes a three-pronged approach. First, it studies...

A key consideration in the policy debate on the appropriate role of private schools in predominantly public school systems is cost effectiveness. The questions are: Do private school students learn more than their counterparts, and is it more or less expensive to educate students in private...