This study quantifies a year's worth of mathematics learning in South Africa (0.3 standard
deviations) and uses this measure to develop empirically calibrated learning trajectories …

There is consensus in the international mathematics teacher education literature that
teachers should, at the most basic level, have mastery of the content knowledge they are …

Seekings and Nattrass explain why poverty persisted in South Africa after the transition to
democracy in 1994. The book examines how public policies both mitigated and reproduced …

South Africa's recent history of apartheid, its resultant high levels of poverty and extreme
social and economic distance between rich and poor continue to play-out in education in …

This paper investigates the extent to which teacher behaviour in classroom affects student
achievement gains in mathematics in Ghana. A representative sample of primary schools …

International assessments, such as the Program for International Student Assessment
(PISA), are being used to recommend educational policies to improve student achievement …

Trust and accountability are often positioned as opposites, the argument being that
accountability is based on distrust and correction of identified deficiencies. Yet, trust is also …

By synthesizing urbanization challenges and current trends in Africa, this dialogue piece
captures the broader transformative processes taking place on the continent. We develop a …

The teaching of mathematics in South African schools has been pronounced to be among
the worst in the world. Unacknowledged poor teaching of mathematics in a majority of public …

South Africa has participated in a number of local and international educational
achievement studies over the past 20 years. Their main purpose has been to monitor and …