the Nigerian Partnership for Education Project (NIPEP) in Sokoto state, Nigeria. School-based management committees … received both a training and a grant to improve access to and quality of primary school education, especially for girls. One … and uptake of primary school education to avoid spending 100 million USD on a program with no discernable impact …

The paper examines whether meeting performance targets in tests at school has an effect on students' subsequent … achievement in education and the take-up by schools of financial support from the government for students. We build a theoretical … model to describe the channels through which students' belief of their ability, as proxied by previous performance in tests …

elementary school students. We exploit the temporal and spatial variation in the four-day school week using a difference … specification checks. These findings have policy relevance to the current U.S. education system, where many school districts must …Public schools face difficult decisions on how to pare budgets. In the current financial environment, school districts …

behavior and outcomes are not easily observable. These issues are particularly prominent in education where, over the last two … decades, test-based accountability systems for schools and students have proliferated. In this study, we present evidence that … the design and decentralized, school-based scoring of New York’s high-stakes Regents Examinations have led to pervasive …

, even when switching is required because students reach the top grade offered at their school. Other researchers find that … from outside the New York City school district, across schools, across years for students staying in the district, and some …) elementary and middle school (hereafter primary schools) students and the last section concludes …

In New York City, elementary and middle school students speak a wide variety of languages in their homes (167) and come … proficient students who are and are not exposed to English at home. What are the differences in the characteristics and school … middle school students by English language proficiency and home language groups …

and prior schooling experiences. Where do immigrant students come from? How many are new arrivals to the school system … students come from countries all over the world, speak a wide variety of languages, and present a range of educational needs … questions through a statistical portrait of the demographic characteristics and educational experiences of immigrant students in …

.14), and school security and safety (Mean = 4.29) On the other hand, the practice/observance of the students on the societal …-kalikasan value (Mean = 4.33). As to the influence of the performance of the school administration on the student’s practice …/observance of societal values: the predictors of Maka-Diyos value of the students were school-community relations and school general …