We are improving the quality of public education by analyzing the available data, collecting data, scrutinizing it, and raising the appropriate questions.
11/01/2023
Designing effective public-private partnerships in education To be effective, public-private partnerships (PPPs) in education, need to be innovative, hold schools accountable, empower parents and students, and promote diverse educational institutions.
21/04/2022
https://www.cgdev.org/blog/feed-all-the-kids-and-let-them-go-to-school
Feed All The Kids, and Let Them Go To School for Free Suppose you’re the minister of education in a lower-middle income country. It’s budget season. You have a meeting tomorrow with the finance minister to make your case for more education spending. You know she’s skeptical that money is really what’s holding your school system back. The World ...
10/01/2022
Community-Based Education: Relationships between the Local and ‘Beyond the Local’
By Bibi-Zuhra Faizi
Community-Based Education: Relationships between the Local and ‘Beyond the Local’ By Bibi-Zuhra Faizi
29/12/2021
World Bank reports an unprecedented increase in Learning poverty.
One of COVID-19’s devastating impacts on the poor and vulnerable can be witnessed in the field of education. It dealt a severe blow to the lives of young children, students, and youth and further exacerbated inequalities in education. Due to prolonged school closures and poor learning outcomes, recent World Bank estimates document that increases in learning poverty – the share of 10-year-olds who cannot read a basic text – could reach 70 percent in low- and middle-income countries.
https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2021/12/20/year-2021-in-review-the-inequality-pandemic?cid=ECR_LI_worldbank_EN_EXT
12/02/2021
"There are significant debates and differences of opinion within the Taliban on education. There is a tension between the preferences of the Taliban’s traditionalists and hardliners, and those who recognise that Afghanistan needs more diverse and more modern ideas and approaches within its education system. Even so, there is still a far stronger emphasis on, and preference for, Islamic education."
Taliban attitudes and policies towards education An analysis of the evolution of Taliban educational policy in Afghanistan
23/12/2020
We take a look at five education stories in 2020, from lead poisoning to selective schools, that may turn out to shape policy in the years to come.
1. Lead poisoning is harming the cognitive ability and educational opportunities of hundreds of millions of children;
2. The Heckman Curve is dead;
3. Newly released data from internationally comparable assessments shine more light on who’s learning (and who isn’t);
4. Progress made on allowing pregnant girls to attend school
The Education Year in Review: Five Big *Non-COVID* Stories of 2020 Going beyond the effects of COVID, we take a look at five education stories in 2020, from lead poisoning to selective schools, that may turn out to shape policy in the years to come.
30/10/2020
The gap in both quantity and quality of schooling between high-income countries and low-income countries is big. Kids in low-income countries will attend five fewer years of school, and they won’t learn as much while they’re in the classroom. The average student in low-income countries performs worse than 95 percent of the students in high-income countries. How can education systems narrow that gap?
What Interventions Deliver the Most Quality Years of Education? And at What Price? There are many studies that show how one intervention reduces dropouts (better access to school) or another intervention increases learning (better quality of schooling). But policymakers and others care about a combination of access and learning! So how do you choose between one intervention that s...
03/10/2020
Math scores of kids in rich countries are higher even if they are from poorer families.
It’s better to be a poor pupil in a rich country than the reverse Country and family income are equally important for predicting students’ test scores
16/09/2020
Human Capital Index (HCI) 2020 for .
For the report and dataset visit: https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/human-capital
13/08/2020
"Teachers should be given the liberty to focus on how to create more interactive touchpoints with students, more than trying to recreate online resources similar to those that already exist. This isn’t just healthier for the students; teachers will also get more energy from interacting with their students than they do from spending time in a home recording studio making Khan Academy-style videos."
Opinion | I Started Khan Academy. We Can Still Avoid an Education Catastrophe. Virtual school will never be a perfect replacement for in-person learning, but there’s a lot of room for improvement.
20/07/2020
Sal Khan of Khan Academy has a new initiative that matches real-world tutors with math students
You can volunteer as a tutor, or seek help as a student. It's a brilliant effort.
06/07/2020
School vs. Education
School vs. Education Russell Baker's humorous and ironic article traces process of mis-educ of children from age 6 onward; concludes that after all mistakes have been made in child's journey to adulthood, and following fulfillment of former student's destiny, he may find himself with leisure and inclination to really be...