Doing Reform Differently: Combining Rigor and Practicality in Implementation and Evaluation of System Reforms
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Doing Reform Differently: Combining Rigor and Practicality in Implementation and Evaluation of System Reforms

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This paper brings together two promising intellectual trends in development: Doing Development Differently (DDD), and whole-system reform. In addition, it provides a framework for evaluating system reforms, as rigorously as…

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Effectiveness of Teachers’ Guides in the Global South: Scripting, Learning Outcomes, and Classroom Utilization
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Effectiveness of Teachers’ Guides in the Global South: Scripting, Learning Outcomes, and Classroom Utilization

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Read the results of RTI International Education’s study on teachers'guides across 13 countries and 19 projects. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, they examined how teachers’ guides across the projects differ…

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What We Have Learned in the Past Decade: RTI’s Approach to Early Grade Literacy Instruction
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What We Have Learned in the Past Decade: RTI’s Approach to Early Grade Literacy Instruction

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RTI International delves into their learnings for the core elements found to improve early grade literacy instruction and learner outcomes: the approach to teaching (Teach), the availability of quality, relevant…

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Improving Procedural and Conceptual Mathematics Outcomes: Evidence from a Randomised Controlled Trial in Kenya

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To improve learning outcomes, an intervention in Kenya called the Primary Math and Reading (PRIMR) Initiative provided pupil learning materials, teachers’ guides and modest teacher professional development in mathematics. This…

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