Countries across Africa continue to face major challenges in education. In this review, we
examine 145 recent empirical studies (from 2014 onward) on how to increase access to and …

The economic and social development of nations relies on their population having physical
access to services and employment opportunities. For the vast majority of the 3.4 billion …

Several rigorously evaluated programs have recently shown positive effects on early literacy
and numeracy outcomes in developing countries. However, these programs have not been …

Many successful piloted programs fail when scaled up to a national level. In Kenya, which
has a long history of particularly ineffective implementation after successful pilot programs …

What is the best way to improve access and learning outcomes for girls? This review brings
together evidence from 267 educational interventions in 54 low-and middle-income …

Reading skills are foundational for daily lives, academic achievement, and careers. In this
study, we systematically reviewed literacy interventions in low‐and middle‐income …

This paper demonstrates the acute sensitivity of education program effectiveness to the
choices of inputs and outcome measures, using a randomized evaluation of a mother …

The linguistic interdependence hypothesis (Cummins, 1979, 2000) states that children's
second-language (L2) proficiency is, to some extent, a function of their first-language (L1) …

Few standardized language assessments are adapted to different cultural and linguistic
contexts to assess children's first language (L1) abilities. We introduce the Ivorian Children's …

Limited rigorous evidence is available from sub-Saharan Africa regarding whether children
who learn to read in their mother tongue will have higher learning outcomes in other …