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Abstract:
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To achieve MDGs, Guatemala needs better schools. Teachers are poorly paid high-school graduates. The current Minister has well-thought-out plans for improvement that should be introduced to make possible an experimental evaluation. The country would be divided into districts with a junior high and senior high in each. Similar districts would be paired. One pair would be selected initially, but as more teachers---who would be university graduates---became available, more pairs would be selected. One district of each pair would be picked randomly to receive the program. Over the years, criterion data would be collected in the experimental and control districts, such as salary, development, academic achievement, school attendance, percent of girls graduating, age of marriage, malnutrition rates, crime, birth rate, etc. Such evaluations would strengthen an MDG grant application. Donors can't help.
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