Policy discourses posit an accountability deficit as an underlying cause of a “learning crisis”
in many low-income countries. Many studies understand this perceived deficit from a …

Despite the rapid growth in enrollment rates across the developing world, there are major
concerns about the quality of education that children receive. Across numerous developing …

Despite significant investments, lower-income countries face a learning crisis. A clamor has
thus arisen worldwide for greater accountability of those involved in service delivery. To …

A significant majority of educational reform initiatives over the past dozen years have aimed
to hold schools more accountable. But this desire actually began to surface in most …

" This book is about the threats to education quality in the developing world that cannot be
explained by lack of resources. It reviews the observed phenomenon of service delivery …

Drawing on the literature on educational accountability and the practices of public
educational service provision in Tanzania, this study explores ex ante students' learning …

Summarizes how 22 programs in 11 developing countries used information for
accountability, school-based management (SBM), and teacher incentives as means of …

Politics of accountability theory contends that policymakers are unlikely to adopt external
accountability policies. Contrary to the theory, many countries have adopted external school …

Yifei Yan's ambitious multi-method case study of government middle schools in Beijing and
Delhi provides fresh insights into how educational accountability can be designed to work, in …

School accountability is one of the most controversial recent reforms taking place in
education systems around the world, but evidence of whether and which accountability …