Educating children is a priority across the globe, but developing countries can face enormous challenges. In Pakistan's Sindh province, only about half of primary school age children go to school, making...
Educating children is a priority across the globe, but developing countries can face enormous challenges. In Pakistan's Sindh province, only about half of primary school age children go to school, making...
Evaluations of educational programs commonly assume that what children learn persists over time. The authors compare learning in Pakistani public and private schools using dynamic panel methods that account...
This paper uses student answers to publicly released questions from an international testing agency together with statistical methods from Item Response Theory to place secondary students from two Indian...
This report shares the findings of first round of the Learning and Educational Achievement in Punjab Schools (LEAPS) survey carried out in all the public and private schools offering primary level education...
The authors report on a survey of primary public and private schools in rural Pakistan with a focus on student achievement as measured through test scores. Absolute learning is low compared with curricular...
Bold assertions have been made in policy reports and popular articles on the high and increasing enrollment in Pakistani religious schools, commonly known as madrassas. Given the importance placed on the...