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Lifewide or School-Only Learning: Approaches to Addressing the Developing World's Learning Crisis
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Friedlander, Elliott W.; Arshan, Nicole; Zhou, Sen; Goldenberg, Claude – American Educational Research Journal, 2019
This cluster randomized controlled trial tested the impact of school-only and lifewide-learning (LWL) approaches to supporting early-grade learning over 2 years in rural Rwanda. We compare school-only and LWL treatments with a business-as-usual control condition and with each other. Schools in both treatment groups received reading materials and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, Teaching Methods, Developing Nations
Impacts of a Program to Improve Girls' Enrollment and Persistence in Liberia Elementary Schools: The Challenge of Using Gender Differences in Aggregate Outcome Trends to Identify Program Effects
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Bos, Johannes M.; Sherman, Dan; Orgut, Burhan – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
Under-enrollment of girls in primary and secondary is a longstanding and well-documented problem in developing countries. Limited parental and communal resources combine with cultural factors to create a disincentive for parents to send their girls to school and to keep them there throughout the school year and for the full primary and secondary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Enrollment, Academic Persistence