Bangladesh is widely recognised as a Millennium Development Goal success story with a strong track record of growth and socio-economic development. The decline in the poverty headcount has been nothing short of remarkable. In 25 years, gender parity and almost universal access to primary school have been achieved. More children than ever before survive their early years, start learning in prima...

the eleven graded systems given in the table below, and from 139 rural schools of Bureau County, Illinois. Blank forms, asking for a tabulation of the age and grade of all school children enrolled in the different systems, were sent to the superintendents and principals, with the request that these be properly filled out and returned at an early date. The data from the Freeport schools were tak...

BACKGROUND The Australian state of Victoria, with 5.2 million residents, enforced home quarantine during a H1N1 pandemic in 2009. The strategy was targeted at school children. The objective of this study was to investigate the extent to which parents' access to paid sick leave or paid carer's leave was associated with (a) time taken off work to care for quarantined children, (b) household finan...

In this commentary, I make five points: that designing observation systems that actually predict students' outcomes is challenging; second that systems that capture the complex and dynamic nature of the classroom learning environment are more likely to be able to meet this challenge; three, that observation tools are most useful when developed to serve a particular purpose and are put to that p...

Teaching mode can be defined as: under the guidance of the certain teaching ideas and teaching theory, around the certain teaching goals, to finish the teaching task and set up relatively stable teaching activities of “paradigm”[1]. The students of ordinary higher school which basis is weaker than the students of research higher schools, so the ordinary higher schools in China carry out “teachi...

This paper compares economic outcomes across areas in India which were under direct British colonial rule with areas which were under indirect colonial rule. Controlling for selective annexation using a specific policy rule, I find that areas which experienced direct rule have significantly lower levels of access to schools, health centers and roads in the post-colonial period. I find evidence ...

This study assesses the effect of black-white differences in school quality on black-white differences in health in later life resulting from the racial convergence in school quality for cohorts born between 1910 and 1950 in southern states with segregated schools. Using data from the 1984-2007 National Health Interview Surveys linked to race-specific data on school quality, we find that reduct...