Emiliana Vegas

9 year old student Jordan in his bedroom in front of his laptops during distance virtual school learning amid Coronavirus Pandemic in Broward County, Florida Public Schools. Florida began their experience with online virtual distance learning, amid the growing coronavirus pandemic on March 31, 2020 in Miramar, Florida. (Photo by JL/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Unequally disconnected: Access to online learning in the US

Victoria Collis and Emiliana Vegas

Monday, June 22, 2020

Students listen to a greeting from a principal through TV class at an elementary school, where students found positve for a new coronavirus test, in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture on June 18, 2020. The elmenatary school decided to operate the staggered attendance to prevent the spread of Covid-19 infection. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun )

Investing in public education worldwide is now more important than ever

Friday, June 19, 2020

Schools have been closed and Two Rivers Middle has a sign saying so as the coronavirus outbreak continued to force many people indoors in Nashville, Tenn. Saturday, March 28, 2020.Empty 04

Reopening schools amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Your questions, our answers

Daniel A. Domenech, Michael Hansen, Heather J. Hough, and Emiliana Vegas

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Thiago covering his face during a live class online on Zoom as he continues his homeschool during the fifth week of his school closure due to the coronavirus pandemic at a temporary home in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico on April 15, 2020. Photographer Benedicte Desrus says, "With his school closed, my son is experiencing big changes to his routine. At such a young age, it's difficult for him to focus and sit behind a computer during a 40 minute long online class. He misses face-to-face teaching and his friends. Thiago, 3-years-old, is the son of the photographer. He was documented as part of a project titled When I grow up about a child growing up on quarantine, away from other children and from the outside world, during the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Bénédicte Desrus/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

The COVID-19 cost of school closures

George Psacharopoulos, Harry Patrinos, Victoria Collis, and Emiliana Vegas

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

March 25, 2020, Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: Empty Harvard Yard in Cambridge, MA. Harvard University President Lawrence S. Bacow annouced that he and his wife have tested positive for the coronavirus on Tuesday on March 24. Harvard University closed its campus earlier in March. No Use China. No Use Taiwan. No Use Korea. No Use Japan.

What can COVID-19 teach us about strengthening education systems?

Thursday, April 9, 2020

Students attend classes after the city was recaptured from the Islamic State militants in Qayyara, Iraq, November 17, 2016. REUTERS/Ari Jalal - D1BEUNJJSIAB

Top 7 global education themes in 2019

Emiliana Vegas and Rebecca Winthrop

Friday, December 20, 2019

Colombian children attend class at the school in Micoahumado, Bolivar Province in this picture taken on February 28, 2005. The children of Micoahumado never had to dream up excuses to stay away from school, they did not have that luxury. Until recently, Micoahumado was one of the most heavily mined areas of Colombia, which has the fourth-highest total of landmine victims in the world, after Chechnya, Afghanistan and Cambodia. Many of the 600 Colombians killed or maimed by the devices last year were children. Picture taken February 28, 2005. REUTERS/Eliana Aponte/FEATURE/COLOMBIA-LANDMINES EA/HB - RTR5AB4

Latin American countries pay attention to global assessments of student learning

Emiliana Vegas and Pablo Zoido

Monday, April 24, 2017

Backpacks with the colours of the Venezuelan national flag hang on chairs during a class at an improvised classroom above a state-run supermarket, which is part of state school Monsenor Marco Tulio Ramirez Roa, in La Fria, Venezuela, June 1, 2016.

Why money matters for improving education

Thursday, July 21, 2016