Abstract
The articles in this Special Issue benefited from the conference organized jointly by the Asian Development Bank Institute, Asian Development Bank and ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute held in September 2021 in Singapore (https://www.adb.org/news/events/improving-quality-basic-education-southeast-asia).There are multidimensional challenges in improving the quality of basic education and ensuring that all students acquire foundational literacy and numeracy skills. This has prompted various education-related reforms, programmes and non-governmental and non-profit organization-supported interventions. There are a few success stories but many more accounts of failure concerning educational reforms in the region. Amidst the situation described above, this special issue reflects the challenges and opportunities that Southeast Asian countries face in improving basic education quality. As a whole, this issue presents the latest empirical research on education in Southeast Asia. There are four country-specific papers -- Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam -- and two regional papers. The six papers examine different unique research methods.
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