Education Plus Development

Grace Debroha, a 13-year-old orphan, writes the names of body parts on a chalkboard at St. Jude's Orphanage, outside Gulu, June 10, 2007. REUTERS/Edward Ou (UGANDA) - GM1DVLMFNKAA

More than policies are required to implement gender-sensitive pedagogy in Uganda

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

A child walks on a swinging bridge at a kindergarten in Wuhan, Hubei province, December 3, 2012. Expectations are now high that China could relax the one-child policy, or even implement a universal two-child policy such as the one in Jiuquan. Outgoing President Hu Jintao, for the first time, conspicuously dropped the phrase "maintain a low birth rate" in his work report to the Chinese Communist Party's twice a decade congress in November. That foreshadows a change to the one-child ethos, according to Ji Baocheng, a delegate to China's rubber stamp parliament who has petitioned five times for a change in the policy. Picture taken December 3, 2012. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY EDUCATION) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA - GM1E91M0E8Y01

The importance of gender in early childhood education policy

Monday, November 5, 2018

Girls in uniform sit along a sidewalk while waiting for school van in Karachi, Pakistan November 8, 2017. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro - RC124BAB2DC0

Educating girls is a must in the Newly Merged Districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Monday, November 5, 2018

A child attends a class at the Wangata commune school during a vaccination campaign against the outbreak of Ebola, in Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 23, 2018. REUTERS/Kenny Katombe - RC1B068B55A0

Progress defining the new learning indicators for SDG 4

Esther Care and Ramya Vivekanandan

Thursday, November 1, 2018

Pupils leave the village school in Tsagaannuur, Khovsgol aimag, Mongolia, April 23, 2018. People who are between 35-40 years old, belong to the last generation that speak the Dukhan language, linguist Elisabetta Ragagnin said. Together with the head teacher of the school in Tsagaannuur, she is writing grammar and textbooks in the nomad's native tongue to help preserve traditional knowledge, she said. REUTERS/Thomas Peter SEARCH "REINDEER HERDERS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RC13671A99A0

Collaborative capacity building in 21st century skills assessment: Reflections from Mongolia

Esther Care, Alvin Vista, Helyn Kim, and Claire Scoular

Friday, October 19, 2018

Kids sitting on the floor

How do you scale spirit?

Chavi Jain, Moitshepi Matsheng, and Jenny Perlman Robinson

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

U.S. first lady Michelle Obama speaks to students during a visit to promote girls' education at Hun Sen Prasaat Bankong high school on the outskirts of Siem Reap March 21, 2015. Cambodia is one of 11 countries to be targeted in the first year of Obama's "Let Girls Learn" initiative, launched last summer through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha - GF10000033834

A global moment for local champions of girls’ education

Christina Kwauk

Thursday, October 11, 2018

Teacher Moulay Ismael Lamrani poses for a picture with his class in the Oudaya primary school in Rabat, September 15, 2015, at the start of the new school year in Morocco. Nearly three years after Taliban gunmen shot Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, the teenage activist last week urged world leaders gathered in New York to help millions more children go to school. World Teachers' Day falls on 5 October, a Unesco initiative highlighting the work of educators struggling to teach children amid intimidation in Pakistan, conflict in Syria or poverty in Vietnam. Even so, there have been some improvements: the number of children not attending primary school has plummeted to an estimated 57 million worldwide in 2015, the U.N. says, down from 100 million 15 years ago. Reuters photographers have documented learning around the world, from well-resourced schools to pupils crammed into corridors in the Philippines, on boats in Brazil or in crowded classrooms in Burundi. REUTERS/Youssef BoudlalPICTURE 41 OF 47 FOR WIDER IMAGE STORY "SCHOOLS AROUND THE WORLD"SEARCH "EDUCATORS SCHOOLS" FOR ALL IMAGES - GF10000226475

Investing in global knowledge sharing for our children

Sara Coffey and Jenny Perlman Robinson

Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Students eats their lunch at Kyamusansala Primary School in Masaka in southern Uganda March 24, 2009. MALTA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN MALTAREUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi (UGANDA) - PM1E5560XG401

Teachers can empower girls through sex education in Uganda

Christine Apiot Okudi

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Schoolgirls make their way to their school through a vegetable field early morning in New Delhi December 11, 2013. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood (INDIA - Tags: SOCIETY EDUCATION) - GM1E9CB169K01

A landmark month for impact bonds in education

Izzy Boggild-Jones and Emily Gustafsson-Wright

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Jamuna Devi Saud, 45, sits outside her house while practicing Chaupadi in the hills of Legudsen village in Achham District in western Nepal February 16, 2014. Chaupadi is a tradition observed in parts of Nepal, which cuts women off from the rest of society when they are menstruating. Women who practice traditional chaupadi have to sleep in sheds or outbuildings while they are on their period, often with little protection from the elements. They are not allowed to enter houses or temples, use normal public water sources, take part in festivals or touch others during their menstruation, according to a United Nations field bulletin on the issue. Isolated in sheds that are frequently rickety and unhygienic, there have been cases of women dying while practicing chaupadi from illness, exposure, animal attacks or from fires lit in poorly ventilated spaces. Chaupadi was banned by Nepal's Supreme Court in 2005, but it is still common in the country's far and mid-western regions. Picture taken February 16, 2014. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar (NEPAL - Tags: SOCIETY)ATTENTION EDITORS: PICTURE 18 OF 20 FOR PACKAGE 'BANISHED ONCE A MONTH' TO FIND ALL IMAGES SEARCH 'CHAUPADI' - GM1EA350LH601

3 strategies to address menstruation taboos for girls in Nepal

Friday, September 21, 2018

A baby touches her mother's shoulder as they rest at the shelter set up in the Lycee Philippe Guerrier ahead of Hurricane Matthew in Les Cayes, Haiti, October 3, 2016. REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares - S1BEUEWVDMAA

Why child care is essential to young mothers’ education in Jamaica

Dasmine Kennedy

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Students listen to their teacher during a lesson at the Islamabad College for girls in Islamabad, Pakistan, October 13, 2017. REUTERS/Caren Firouz SEARCH "FIROUZ EDUCATION" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RC15B45AD320

Lessons from a girls’ education advocacy initiative in Pakistan

Thursday, September 6, 2018

Boys react to the camera during their recess break in the middle of their academic day at a school in Mumbai August 10, 2010. The Right to Education Act that came into force has made free and compulsory education the right of every child between the age of 6 to 14 years old in India. UNESCO says the Act has brought the country closer to meeting its millennium development goals, with an estimated eight million out-of-school Indian children now having better access to education. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui (INDIA - Tags: EDUCATION) - GM1E68A1UHJ01

Teaching boys to examine gender in patriarchal societies

Thursday, August 23, 2018

Children play with soap bubbles created by a street performer at Rizal park in Luneta, metro Manila, Philippines May 16, 2018. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC19387EB200

A prescription for play

Michael Yogman and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Tuesday, August 21, 2018