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Nyatuka, Benard Omenge – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2016
In order for children to acquire meaningful education, families are advised to participate in learning activities at home. Such activities range from monitoring homework, problem-solving to reading with children during leisure time. But home-learning was claimed to receive little attention from key stakeholders among primary schools in Kenya's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parents as Teachers, Family Environment, Parent Attitudes
Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; Kremer, Michael – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2012
We examine a program that enabled Parent-Teacher Associations (PTAs) in Kenya to hire novice teachers on short-term contracts, reducing class sizes in grade one from 82 to 44 on average. PTA teachers earned approximately one-quarter as much as teachers operating under central government civil-service institutions but were absent one day per week…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Ratio, Incentives, Governance, Teacher Associations