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This paper describes the vision and key principles guiding the World Bank’s support to countries on teachers.

This article examines inequitable teacher distribution in Tanzania and its implications on the efficiency in public education expenditure. It also presents lessons learned for other countries.

The development of pertinent and effective in-service teacher training remains a policy challenge for many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Ecuador stands out as a country in the region...

This note provides guidance on how to establish a numerical indicator to measure teaching practices through classroom observation tools, and how to benchmark this indicator to track changes in...

This note presents common barriers that teachers and pedagogical leaders face at each teacher professional development (TPD) stage and offers operationally feasible, tech-based mitigation strategies...

The report proposes a practical framework to uncover the “black box” of effective teacher policy and discusses the factors that enable their scalability and sustainability. The framework distills...

Presentation by Ezequiel Molina, Senior Economist in the Education Global Practice, World Bank, at the online workshop Global pathways to an attractive teaching profession, that was held on 6th...

This paper reports on a comprehensive review of international evidence, synthesising the findings of some of the strongest empirical work on the main factors influencing people's decisions to be...

Student learning levels in low- and middle-income countries are low, and analysis of the proximate causes often points to failures among teachers, whether a lack of content knowledge, high absenteeism...

This article presents a systematic review of international research evidence identifying the most promising approaches to attracting and retaining teachers in hard-to-staff areas. It concludes that...

This study analyzes the scope and content of the teaching profession in Sierra Leone, describing its main challenges and providing recommendations to better align teacher training with education needs...

This study analyses the results of a survey of undergraduates from a variety disciplines in England that explores whether respondants have considered teaching as a career and which factors attract...