How Effective Are Poor Schools? Poverty and Educational Outcomes in South Africa.

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‘Black Economic Empowerment’, Business and the State in South Africa (2007, background): “16 Note that different levels of teacher qualification mean that average expenditure level per student may be different in different schools. textbook availability are still problematic in historically black schools (van der Berg, 2006).”
Estimating the impact of language of instruction in South African primary schools: A fixed effects approach (2016, background): “Consequently, institutional and managerial weaknesses persist in the historically black section of the school system (Van der Berg, 2008). not changed schools over the period - assumptions that are obviously not true for all children.”
A Preliminary Analysis of SACMEQ III South Africa (2012, neutral): “ This difference in explanatory power, at least between the Reading and Maths scores, has been found elsewhere in the literature for similar data (Van der Berg, 2008: 27).”