Center for Universal Education

Students attend a class in school in Pachacutec shanty town northern Lima March 1, 2012. More than a million students returned to school on Wednesday for the new academic year. REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil (PERU - Tags: EDUCATION SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1E83203ZZ01

Improving education data to count minority girls in Peru

Eliana Villar Márquez

Monday, August 6, 2018

Noreen, a 6-year-old Pashtun girl, holds a book as she stands at the doorway of her family house in the outskirts of Peshawar October 11, 2012. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1E8AB1TKJ01

Why do Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas have such a high gender gap in education?

Tuesday, July 31, 2018

A Jordanian employee paints a handcrafted salver at a Beit al Bawadi ceramics workshop in Amman January 7, 2014. The Beit al Bawadi ceramic workshop was set up by non-profit organisation Jordanian Hashemite Fund for Human Development (JOHUD) to provide employment opportunities for Jordanian youths. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed (JORDAN - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - GM1EA1800K501

Female labor force participation is about more than economics

Mayyada Abu Jaber

Thursday, July 26, 2018

A pupil sits inside a classroom ahead of the primary school final national examinations at a primary school in East Africa. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya - RC1294BA3D70

Gender assumptions that challenge a quality education for girls in Uganda

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Palestinian schoolchildren attend a class at a U.N.-run school in Dir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on the first day of the school year August 25, 2013. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA - Tags: EDUCATION) - GM1E98P1DF301

7 principles for empowering teachers to be architects of girls’ empowerment

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Schoolgirls queue up to receive money from authorities at a government school in Mumbai April 25, 2008. Girls attending state-run schools in India's financial capital of Mumbai are ending the school year a little richer than they began it. For each day a girl showed up in classes, city authorities are paying her 1 rupee -- about 2 U.S. cents. Boys continue to take nothing home besides their homework. Picture taken April 25, 2008 REUTERS/Punit Paranjpe (INDIA)Also see: GF2E46U0SUZ01 - GM1E44S1ESO01

World’s first development impact bond for education shows successful achievement of outcomes in its final year

Izzy Boggild-Jones and Emily Gustafsson-Wright

Friday, July 13, 2018

A Syrian refugee girl who was briefly separated from her parents cries as she walks through a rainstorm towards Greece's border with Macedonia, near the Greek village of Idomeni, September 10, 2015. Thousands of refugees and migrants, including many families with young children, have been left soaked after spending the night sleeping in the open in torrential rain on the Greek-Macedonian border. About 7,000 people waited in the mud of an open field near the northern Greek village of Idomeni to cross the border, with more arriving in trains, buses and taxis, as Macedonian police has imposed rationing in the flow of refugees. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis - S1BEUGOKOIAA

The enormous cost of toxic stress: Repairing damage to refugee and separated children

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Monday, July 9, 2018

Xu Liangfan, 37, teaches students during a mathematics class at Banpo Primary School in Shengji county, Bijie city, in Guizhou province March 12, 2013. Xu, who started working at the school last year, is the headmaster of the school and teaches mathematics and gym class. Located halfway up a mountain, the school has 68 students of which about 20 live in the nearby Gengguan village. Students from Gengguan have to edge their way along the narrow cliff path to go to class everyday, alongside Xu who would escort them. The path, which was carved from cliffs over 40 years ago, is the only route between Gengguan village and the school, according to local media. Picture taken March 12, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: EDUCATION) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA - GM1E93Q10VQ01

A proposed blueprint for supporting large-scale change in education

Jenny Perlman Robinson and Molly Curtiss Wyss

Tuesday, July 3, 2018

A nurse chats with a woman

How outlawing female genital mutilation in Kenya has driven it underground and led to its medicalization

Damaris Seleina Parsitau

Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Refugee schoolchildren attend a lesson in a classroom on the first day of the new school

Are impact bonds and outcome funds a solution to the global learning crisis?

Emily Gustafsson-Wright and Izzy Boggild-Jones

Monday, June 18, 2018