Center for Universal Education

Colombian children attend class at the school in Micoahumado, Bolivar Province in this picture taken on February 28, 2005. The children of Micoahumado never had to dream up excuses to stay away from school, they did not have that luxury. Until recently, Micoahumado was one of the most heavily mined areas of Colombia, which has the fourth-highest total of landmine victims in the world, after Chechnya, Afghanistan and Cambodia. Many of the 600 Colombians killed or maimed by the devices last year were children. Picture taken February 28, 2005. REUTERS/Eliana Aponte/FEATURE/COLOMBIA-LANDMINES EA/HB - RTR5AB4

Latin American countries pay attention to global assessments of student learning

Emiliana Vegas and Pablo Zoido

Monday, April 24, 2017

Children attend the opening of a psychological support centre for children in Da'el town, north of Deraa, Syria, August 1, 2015. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Faqir - RTX1MONN

Skills for a changing world: The global movement to prepare students for the 21st century

Monday, April 24, 2017

Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai addresses a joint session of Parliament in the House of Commons in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, April 12, 2017. REUTERS/Chris Wattie - RTX359WG

Acting on Malala’s message: Girls’ education can lead to a healthier planet

Christina Kwauk and Amanda Braga

Friday, April 21, 2017

Students repeat a lesson in class at a school in Yemen's capital Sanaa April 17, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayaghi - RTS12ME1

How to get millions learning: From evidence to action

Jenny Perlman Robinson and Molly Curtiss Wyss

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

A parent of one of the abducted Chibok school girls cries after the police prevented the parents access to see President Muhammadu Buhari during a rally in Abuja, Nigeria August 25, 2016. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde - RTX2N12S

How girls’ education intersects with violent extremism

Amanda Braga and Christina Kwauk

Thursday, April 13, 2017

Students count with their fingers as a teacher teaches the 2013 curriculum inside a classroom at Cempaka Putih district in Jakarta, October 15, 2014. Indonesia plans to discontinue early next year the widely criticised school curriculum that emphasises moral and religious education, a minister said on Monday. Picture taken October 15, 2014. REUTERS/Beawiharta (INDONESIA - Tags: EDUCATION POLITICS) - RTR4H4JC

Can transparency improve schooling? Sometimes.

Lindsay Read and Tamar Manuelyan Atinc

Monday, April 10, 2017

Children colour a map of Paris on a wall as "Paris Plages" (Paris Beach) opens along the banks of River Seine in Paris, France, July 20, 2015. The beach, in the heart of the French capital, includes stretches of imported sand and various free sporting activities for the public. Paris Plages runs during the summer holiday season from July 20 until August 16. REUTERS/Charles Platiau - RTX1L2SO

Skills for a “gendered” world: Adding a gender perspective to the skills debate

Christina Kwauk, Amanda Braga, and Helyn Kim

Monday, April 3, 2017

Photo: The colors of the Colombian flag are reflected in a canal next to the convention center in Cartagena, Colombia. [Reuters/Jaime Saldarriaga]

Colombia leads the developing world in signing the first social impact bond contracts

Emily Gustafsson-Wright and Izzy Boggild-Jones

Friday, March 31, 2017

Schoolgirls attend a lesson at a school that reopened after a gap of more than a year and a half because of clashes in Benghazi, Libya December 20, 2015. REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori - RTX1ZH94

WATCH: Pathways for scaling up quality education in developing countries

Jenny Perlman Robinson and Priyanka Varma

Thursday, March 30, 2017

Girls play at a public park in Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums, in Mumbai April 8, 2015. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui - RTR4WJD6

Science of learning: Why do we care?

Helyn Kim, Eileen McGivney, and Esther Care

Tuesday, March 28, 2017