Schooling for all: feasible strategies to achieve universal education

This report debates the case for specific public investments in education in low- and lower-middle-income countries, drawing on evidence of what has worked not just in small-scale experiments but historically and in large-scale national programs. Its messages are intended more for economic policymakers than educators, as they speak to what can be accomplished with fiscal instruments (money) and where trade-offs must be made. The chapters that follow suggest, for instance, that money spent on school meals probably goes further than reducing class sizes.