[Impact Evaluation] There have been many initiatives to improve education outcomes in South Asia. Still, outcomes remain stubbornly resistant to improvements, at least when considered across the...
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Improving education outcomes in South Asia : findings from a decade of impact evaluations
Region/Country: South Asia Type: Impact Evaluation and Policy Research Year: 2015
SABER Workforce Development Sri Lanka Country Report 2014
This report presents the findings of the assessment of Sri Lanka workforce development (WfD) system, conducted based on the World Banks Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER) WfD...
Accelerating growth through skills and knowledge : an evaluation of the World Bank Group?s support for higher education
The World Bank Group?s support for higher education is at a crossroads. As developing countries have expanded basic education systems and transition into the knowledge economy, the World Bank Group...
Adolescent girls initiative (AGI) project implementation and results
The status of pilot implementation provides various projects with details, implemetation updates, and emerging findings. Those projects include: pilot financing: US$ 2.05 million; target population...
Conducting classroom observations : analyzing classrooms dynamics and instructional time - using the Stallings classroom snapshot observation system : user guide
The ?Stallings classroom snapshot? instrument, technically called the ?Stanford Research Institute classroom observation system? was developed by Professor Jane Stallings for research on the...
Delivering education : a pragmatic framework for improving education in low-income countries
Even as primary-school enrollments have increased in most low-income countries, levels of learning remain low and highly unequal. Responding to greater parental demand for quality, low-cost private...
Driving development with tertiary education reforms
Tertiary education refers to all postsecondary education, including but not limited to universities. Although universities are a key part of all tertiary education systems, in recent years a diverse...
Early childhood development and skills across the life-course through the lens of the developing brain
Human development and development are inseparable, and now new evidence emerges that brain development is the key driving mechanism behind this association. The foundations of brain architecture are...
Education : ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity 2015 - snapshot
At the turn of the century, the Millennium Development Goals related to education committed the world to getting all children into primary school, and to ensuring gender parity in schooling. Since...
From evidence to policy - Do infants benefit when older siblings are dewormed?
[Impact Evaluation, SIEF] Early childhood is a crucial window of opportunity for improving lives. The challenge for policymakers and development experts knows which programs give children?s...
