Long-Lived Consequences of Rapid Scale-Up ? The Case of Free Primary Education in Six Sub-Saharan African Countries (English)

Across six Sub-Saharan African countries, grade 4 students of teachers who were hired after a free primary education reform perform worse, on average, on language and math tests—statistically significantly so in language—than students of teachers who were hired before the reform. Teachers who were hired just after the reform also perform worse, on average, on tests of subject content knowledge than those hired before the reform. The results are sensitive...
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Filmer,Deon P..

Long-Lived Consequences of Rapid Scale-Up ? The Case of Free Primary Education in Six Sub-Saharan African Countries (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 10310; Paper is funded by the Knowledge for Change Program (KCP) Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099420102162335749

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