Education Plus Development

Close up of school kids with tablet computers in classroom.

Education technology post-COVID-19: A missed opportunity?

Friday, March 11, 2022

Group of diverse kindergarten students standing holding hands together.

Community schools and a critical moment in the fight against education inequality

Hayin Kimner, Lorenna Maysonet, and Rebecca Winthrop

Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Adolescents in Africa wash their hands.

Gender equality and sustainability: Echidna Global Scholars taking action

Dileni Gunewardena, Arundhuti Gupta, Khadim Hussain, Sumbal Naveed, Christine Apiot Okudi, María Cristina Osorio Vázquez, Urvashi Sahni, and Nasrin Siddiqa

Monday, March 7, 2022

Planet Earth being held up by multiple hands

The international community needs new solutions to support the education of a generation of displaced children and youth

Friday, March 4, 2022

A stack of books on a table with pre-K written on the spine of one book and glasses sitting on top of the stack. Also, an apple and a glass of pencils sit on the table.

Making pre-K work: Lessons from the Tennessee study

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Dale C. Farran, Margaret Burchinal, and Kimberly Nesbitt

Monday, February 28, 2022

Sabrina Williams from the She Will Rise campaign to put a black woman on the Supreme Court speaks to the crowd at the No Confirmation Until Inauguration Rally

Educating children to make the invisible, visible

Ryan F. Lei, Sa-Kiera T.J. Hudson, and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Students as seen inside a classroom of BSS School in Kolkata , India , on 3 February 2022 . School reopens after being shut due to restrictions caused by the spread of new Omicron variant of Coronavirus in Kolkata . (Photo by Debarchan Chatterjee/NurPhoto)NO USE FRANCE

4-step bridge program holds promise for addressing foundational learning in post-pandemic India

Dhir Jhingran, Ramesh Chandra, and Sushruti Sachdev

Friday, February 4, 2022

Children playing with a ball in the park.

Creating playful learning spaces in cities: The important role of stakeholder buy-in

Helen Shwe Hadani and Shwetha Parvathy

Thursday, February 3, 2022

Mary Carmen Che Chi, 31, meets with the mothers of her pupils, amid the coronavirus pandemic at the Ignacio Ramírez Calzada primary school in the indigenous community of Celtún, Chichimilá municipality, Yucatán state, Mexico on May 4, 2021. Mary Carmen meets with the parents every two weeks to distribute learning materials, as well as to support and coach them through at-home learning during school closure. The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted education for an estimated 90 percent of the worlds school children. In Mexico, schools have been closed since mid-March 2020 and the government switched the system to distanced learning or Aprende en Casa (Learn at Home), where students learn on television and the internet at home. However, due to the lack of internet connectivity and the barrier of the language, distance learning has been impossible for many children in isolated and impoverished parts of the country. Celtún is a rural, remote and indigenous community in the state of Yucatán, with no telecommunications infrastructure. There, to ensure continuity of learning to their students, teachers at the Ignacio Ramírez Calzada primary school Mary Carmen Che Chi and José Manuel Cen Kauil, prepare bilingual learning materials at their home and distribute it to their students every two weeks. Today, schools still remain closed in Mexico, but since September 2020, the two teachers have gotten the green light from their supervisor to run small in-person classes every two weeks at the school as the coronavirus pandemic continues. (Photo by Bénédicte Desrus/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Top 5 insights for improving family-school collaboration during COVID and beyond

Rebecca Winthrop

Wednesday, January 26, 2022

A mother reads to her toddler.

A little cash goes a long way to support early childhood and development

Molly Scott, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Students from around the world read.

Global education trends and research to follow in 2022

Emily Gustafsson-Wright, Helen Shwe Hadani, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Maysa Jalbout, Elizabeth M. King, Jennifer L. O’Donoghue, Brad Olsen, Jordan Shapiro, Emiliana Vegas, and Rebecca Winthrop

Monday, January 24, 2022

Students and their teacher gather around a handmade map.

4 paradoxes of global education on International Day of Education

Friday, January 21, 2022

Children in India attend school during COVID.

Why Indian NGOs are developing a shared education agenda in reaction to COVID-19

Rebecca Winthrop

Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Afghan girls study at an open area, founded by Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), outside Jalalabad city, Afghanistan September 16, 2015. REUTERS/Parwiz

To help ensure food and economic security in Afghanistan, invest in the skills of young women and girls

Nangyalai Attal

Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Nyangatom and toposa tribe children at school, Omo valley, Kangate, Ethiopia.NO USE FRANCE

Partnerships, social capital, and practice-oriented research: Sharing lessons from the scaling experiences of Tanzania and Côte d’Ivoire

Thursday, January 6, 2022