Center for Universal Education

A social worker attends to children at a school for working children run by a non-government organisation (NGO), the Liberal Association for Movement of People (LAMP), in eastern Indian city of Siliguri October 16, 2009. The school provides free food and education to about 120 students aged between 5 to 15 years who then go to work following the morning classes. REUTERS/Tim Chong (INDIA SOCIETY EDUCATION) - GM1E5AO02KX01

15 countries and cities gathered to rethink education assessment systems—this is what we learned

Kate Anderson and Tyler Ditmore

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Teacher Kristi Rahn (C) helps to first grade students during a computer lesson in school in Tallinn September 25, 2012. Estonian Tiger Leap Foundation has launched a program called "ProgeTiiger" where Estonian students will be introduced to computer programming and creating web and mobile applications. According to representatives from the foundation, the program will start with students in the first grade, which starts around the age of 7, and will continue through a student's final years of public school, around age 15. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins (ESTONIA - Tags: EDUCATION SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) - GM1E89P1PG901

Using data and technology to enhance classroom teaching

Dara Ramalingam

Friday, February 9, 2018

Students learn how to use a video camera in a "Communicational Guerrillas" class at Fermin Toro high school in Caracas May 5, 2010. Venezuelan adolescents have joined a plan called "Communicational Guerrillas" supported by the government. Their mission is to combat private media's messages through traditional tools such as radio and television. Some groups have also chosen expressions such as graffiti with political messages. Picture taken May 5, 2010. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins (VENEZUELA - Tags: SOCIETY POLITICS) - GM1E6570KXS01

Innovation in everyday teaching: No more waiting for Superman

Alejandro Paniagua

Thursday, February 8, 2018

Senegalese President Macky Sall and French President Emmanuel Macron talk during an agreement signing ceremony at the presidential palace in Dakar, Senegal, February 2, 2018. REUTERS/Ludovic Marin/Pool - RC1282C70620

Strengthening global education partnerships during a time of increasing isolationism

Rebecca Winthrop

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

From Davos: Is paying for results with blended finance ready to take off?

Emily Gustafsson-Wright

Thursday, February 1, 2018

Sather Tower rises above the University of California at Berkeley campus in Berkeley, California May 12, 2014. REUTERS/Noah Berger (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION) - GF2EA5D0QZ701

From ivory towers to the classroom: How can we make academic research useful in the real world?

Esther Care and Helyn Kim

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

A boy displaced by floods pulls bamboo poles for making shelter through floodwaters while taking refuge on an embankment near Kari Mori, about 32 km (20 miles) in Dadu, in Pakistan's Sindh province, October 7, 2010. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY) - GM1E6A71REA01

How natural disasters undermine schooling

Erica Chuang, Jessie Pinchoff, and Stephanie Psaki

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

A labourer sits on a pushcart loaded with spices at a busy market in the old quarters of Delhi, India, February 29, 2016.Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants the federal budget unveiled on Monday to appeal to India's rural poor, officials familiar with his thinking said, in a strategy shift that could boost his ruling party in coming state elections but disappoint investors. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton - GF10000327856

Paying for social outcomes: A review of the global impact bond market in 2017

Emily Gustafsson-Wright and Izzy Boggild-Jones

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Students attend class at the Headstart private school in Islamabad, Pakistan, October 9, 2017. REUTERS/Caren Firouz SEARCH "FIROUZ EDUCATION" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RC19A8C65A60

The mysteries of communication: What does it take to really listen?

Nicoletta Di Blas and Esther Care

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Mia Moscoso plays on a slide at Riverside Park, which is located on land that had been filled with abandoned mills and decrepit buildings, in the Olneyville neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island March 20, 2014. Public pressure, federal funding, data-driven policing and greater community organization are all prompting more experimentation around the U.S. with new ways to get at the roots of urban poverty and crime. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY REAL ESTATE) - GM1EA8U0XP801

Funding childhood poverty programs is key to social mobility

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Andres S. Bustamante, and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

Thursday, December 28, 2017