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This note provides practical guidance to national governments about key priorities for the education sector following a … major disaster or crisis. It specifies a set of considerations and actions to help ensure that the education sector can: (1 …
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development. The 2018 WDR-LEARNING to Realize Education's Promise-is the first ever devoted entirely to education. And the time is … right: education has long been critical to human welfare, but it is even more so in a time of rapid economic and social … promote education. The 2018 WDR explores four main themes: First, education's promise: education is a powerful instrument for …
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-size effects. Ensuring that all incoming teachers have the officially mandated effective years of education, along with increasing …
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The standard summary metric of education-based human capital used in macro analyses-the average number of years of …) its virtues of simplicity and transparency make it a good candidate summary measure of education …
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It is imperative that students learn to read in the early grades, yet many fail to do so in developing countries. Early grade reading interventions have emerged as a common means to attempt to address this problem. This paper presents a definition of early grade reading interventions as...
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. Limited resources mean that policymakers must make tough choices about which investments to make to improve education …. Although hundreds of education interventions have been rigorously evaluated, making comparisons between the results is … for reporting gains from education interventions. The paper applies LAYS to compare the effectiveness (and cost …
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