Pre-service education and in-service teacher professional development (collectively termed
teacher professional development or TPD here) can play a pivotal role in raising teaching …

Countries across Africa continue to face major challenges in education. In this review, we
examine 145 recent empirical studies (from 2014 onward) on how to increase access to and …

This publication is the new edition of EDC's popular 2011 guide by the same name,
completely revised to include lessons learned over the last decade, including the massive …

Several rigorously evaluated programs have recently shown positive effects on early literacy
and numeracy outcomes in developing countries. However, these programs have not been …

Many successful piloted programs fail when scaled up to a national level. In Kenya, which
has a long history of particularly ineffective implementation after successful pilot programs …

What is the best way to improve access and learning outcomes for girls? This review brings
together evidence from 267 educational interventions in 54 low-and middle-income …

Background Sub-Saharan Africa has among the highest prevalence of teenage pregnancy
in the world. Teenage mothers and their children are at risk to a host of medical, social and …

Background School dropout has been linked to early pregnancy and marriage but less is
known about the effect of school performance. We aimed to assess whether school …

This study explores the impact of a seminar on self-efficacy and argumentative skills on
teachers' professional development. In this seminar, called “On the Shoulders of Giants,” a …

The linguistic interdependence hypothesis (Cummins, 1979, 2000) states that children's
second-language (L2) proficiency is, to some extent, a function of their first-language (L1) …