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Multilingualism and multiliteracy: raising learning outcomes in challenging contexts in primary schools across India

Principal Investigator: Ianthi Maria Tsimpli.

Improving school governance and learning outcomes at scale: a randomized evaluation of the Madhya Pradesh School Quality Assessment program

Principal Investigator: Karthik Muralidharan. Lead Organisation: Institute for Financial Management and Research

Co-investigator: Abhijeet Singh

We propose to conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of one of the most ambitious recent attempts by a developing country government to improve education governance at scale.

Organizational Perspectives on Accountability and Learning (OPAL): school management models and the social impact of schooling in Mumbai and Kathmandu

Principal Investigator: Robin Shields. Lead Organisation: University of Bath

Co-investigators: Stephen Carney; Swati Banerjee; Hugh Lauder; Andres Sandoval Hernandez; Ganesh Bahadur Singh; P.K. Shajahan

The project will investigate how the accountability of schools differs according the school management model and whether accountability is linked to differences in learning outcomes.

Strengthening schools accountability mechanisms through participation: addressing education quality and equity in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Principal Investigator: Jean-Francois Trani. Lead Organisation: Washington University in St Louis

Co-investgators: Sheretta Butler-Barnes; Nidhi Singal; Atika Pasha; Juanita Vasquez-Escallon; Parul Bakhshi; Peter Hovmand; Aminulhaq Mayel; Farah Said; Sanjeev Kumar Rai; Muhammad Tahir Waqar

Students at the Cestos High School, Liberia.

Partnership schools for Liberia: impact on accountability mechanisms and education outcomes

Principal Investigator: Justin Sandefur. Lead Organisation: Innovations for Poverty Action

Liberia's public education system is moribund. The civil war of 1999-2003 and the Ebola epidemic of 2014 have left the Ministry of Education with little capacity to run a national school system.

Schoolgirls walking in Karnataka, India.

Disadvantage and Participation Accountability Processes: Theory and Evidence from School Development and Management Committees in Karnataka, India

Principal Investigator: Sayantan Ghosal.

Indian children at school near Bodh Gaya

Rights and Accountability in the Indian System of Education (RAISE)

This project focuses on learning outcomes for 'disadvantaged learners' in India: children of primary school age who are disadvantaged by a range of structural inequalities, which are often cross-cutting, such as gender, location, caste, and class.

Improving learning: developing measures of accountability and evaluating their association with students' gains in achievement in Nepal

Principal Investigator: Dirgha Ghimire. Lead Organisation: University of Michigan

Co-investigators: William Axinn; Brian Rowan

We propose to develop and validate measures of accountability to be shared with the Nepal Ministry of Education (MOE) and to use those measures in an analysis of the determinants of accountability and its association with students' gains in achievement.

Can schools' accountability for learning be strengthened from the grassroots? Investigating the potential for community-school partnerships in India

Principal investigator: Ricardo Sabates.

Accountability for gender equality in education: Critical perspectives on an indicator framework for the SDGs

Principal Investigator: Elaine Sara Unterhalter. Lead Organisation: University College London (UCL).

Co-investigators: Relebohile Moletsane (University of KwaZulu-Natal); Rosie Peppin Vaughan (UCL); Catherine Marion Jere (University of East Anglia); Dorothy Cynthia Nampota (University of Malawi)

Researcher: Helen Ruth Longlands (UCL)

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