What do you mean by ‘good’? The search for exceptional primary schools in South Africa’s no-fee school system
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Keywords
Exceptional schools; literacy; no-fee schools; school quality; South Africa;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2018-01-08 (Education)
- NEP-URE-2018-01-08 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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