This paper presents results on the effectiveness of different human capital policies targeted to disadvantaged groups in the Netherlands. The policies considered are: class size reduction, extra resources for personnel, extra resources for computers, lowering the compulsory school attendance age and increasing the compulsory school leaving age. All results are based on some quasi-experimental r...

BACKGROUND School Feeding Program (SFP) is a targeted safety net program designed to provide educational and health benefits to vulnerable children. However, limited evidence exists regarding the effect of the intervention on the nutritional status and school attendance of children. The study is aimed at examining the effects of SFP on dietary diversity, nutritional status and class attendance ...

Child Work and Schooling Costs in Rural Northern India It is widely held that work by children obstructs schooling, so that working children in impoverished families will find it difficult to escape poverty. If children’s school attendance and work were highly substitutable activities, it would be advisable to quell work in the interest of schooling and, if less child work were desirable for it...

BACKGROUND Free school breakfast programmes (SBPs) exist in a number of high-income countries, but their effects on educational outcomes have rarely been evaluated in randomised controlled trials. METHODS A 1-year stepped-wedge, cluster randomised controlled trial was undertaken in 14 New Zealand schools in low socioeconomic resource areas. Participants were 424 children, mean age 9±2 years, ...

The popularity, demand, and increased federal and private funding for after-school programs have resulted in a marked increase in after-school programs over the past two decades. After-school programs are used to prevent adverse outcomes, decrease risks, or improve functioning with at-risk youth in several areas, including academic achievement, crime and behavioral problems, socio-emotional fun...

The Department of Education’s step in reopening the classes at elementary level is very challenging as virus still exist and dangers students teachers from contracting virus. For principal, performing tasks set by national local IATF including manual getting temperature, attendance, sending notifications to parents time-consuming still, both they face risk Using scrum framework agile methodolog...

In an experiment in non-formal schools in Indian slums, a reward scheme for attending a target number of school days increased average attendance when the scheme was in place, but had heterogeneous effects after it was removed. Among students with high baseline attendance, the incentive had no effect on attendance after it was discontinued, and test scores were unaffected. Among students with l...