Rebecca Winthrop

School kids wearing protective mask in classroom and raising hands

How COVID-19 is changing education—not always for the worse

Rebecca Winthrop

Trend Lines

Thursday, September 17, 2020

Beyond reopening: A leapfrog moment to transform education?

9:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

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Beyond reopening schools: How education can emerge stronger than before COVID-19

Emiliana Vegas and Rebecca Winthrop

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

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Ghana’s leapfrog experiment: Free senior secondary school for all youth

Rebecca Winthrop

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Webinar: Strengthening the civic fabric of the nation

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM EDT

Demonstrators protest against the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, on East 34th Street in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., June 5, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Segar

Learning to live together: How education can help fight systemic racism

Rebecca Winthrop

Friday, June 5, 2020

Save our education budgets: Maintaining expenditure on education post-pandemic

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT

A pupil, wearing a protective mask, writes on a classroom chalkboard at the Merlan school of Paillet during the reopening of schools, as the lockdown due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is eased, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast May 25, 2020. REUTERS/Luc Gnago

Education is crucial to Africa’s COVID-19 response

Jean-Marc Bernard, Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly, and Rebecca Winthrop

Thursday, June 4, 2020

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The need for civic education in 21st-century schools

Rebecca Winthrop

Thursday, June 4, 2020

Arielle Sadia, a 16 years old student in Odienné, in the Northwest of Côte d'Ivoire. During the coronacrisis schools are closed. But theimath teacher was reluctant and took the initiative to teach with a limited group of students twice a week for two hours.They respect the social distance and wear a mask during classes. "I find it a dood initiative because I can not just sit and wait at home doing nothing. I prefer to come to school. I encourage the youth to study even more now during this crisis. My dream is to become an engineer. " says the young girl and first of her class. For every child, education.

5 actions to help bring the most marginalized girls back to school after COVID-19

Robert Jenkins and Rebecca Winthrop

Friday, May 15, 2020