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Children play on a carousel at a kindergarten in Baokang, Hubei province February 29, 2008. China, worried about an aging population, is studying scrapping its controversial one-child policy but will not do away with family-planning policies altogether, a senior official said. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA) CHINA OUT - RTR1XPS5

New data on the breadth of skills movement in education

Helyn Kim, Esther Care, and Tyler Ditmore

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Primary school children, including those with refugee backgrounds, read real-life stories about refugees during a classroom lesson about the refugee crisis at Norbury School in Harrow, London, Britain July 15, 2016. Picture taken July 15, 2016. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Lin Taylor - RTSIU5X

Reflecting on Millions Learning: Lessons from Teach First’s scaling story

Monday, January 23, 2017

Pupils at a township school in Cape Town get to grips with computers for the first time, August 22. The school, Delft South Primary, is at the core of a ground-breaking project funded by the Dutch government to teach children a crucial cocktail of computer, language and mathematics skills. South Africa's education system is bursting at the seams with class sizes of 48 common in many government schools, a shortage of trained teachers and little money to buy text books let alone computers. Picture taken August 22. - RTXJWWP

Let’s aspire, but be realistic: What skills can be taught for the 21st century?

Esther Care and Helyn Kim

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Abboud (L), 12, and his brother Deeb, 14, stand with their weapons behind sandbags in Aleppo's Sheikh Saeed neighbourhood, September 28, 2013. Abboud and Deeb, both school-going children before the civil war, joined the Free Syrian Army after the deaths of two of their brothers and an uncle in the conflict. REUTERS/Muzaffar Salman (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT) - RTR3FE1X

Rehabilitating child soldiers in the Middle East

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

A girl writes on a chalk board during the opening of the elementary school year in the old center of Managua February 4, 2008. REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas (NICARAGUA) - RTR1WP1F

5 highlights from impact bond activity in developing countries in 2016 (and a look to 2017)

Emily Gustafsson-Wright

Friday, January 13, 2017

Children play on broken slides at a public park in Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums in Mumbai, India, January 5, 2017. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui - RTX2XN1T

Urban Thinkscape: Using the city as an agent of change

Brenna Hassinger-Das, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

Thursday, January 5, 2017

Iranian and Afghan girls play volleyball with workers of the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR at the Emam Hasan Mojtaba school in Kerman, Iran, October 23, 2016. Picture taken on October 23, 2016. REUTERS/Gabriela Baczynska - RTX2QKGT

Developing life skills for girls: 5 takeaways from the 2016 Girls’ Education Research Symposium

Amanda Braga and Christina Kwauk

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Subsistence farmer Joice Chimedza harvests maize on her small plot in Norton, a farming area outside Zimbabwe's capital Harare, May 10, 2016. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo. - RTX2DNC6

WATCH: A framework for building resilience to climate change through girls’ education programming

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

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) - RTR1QO56

WATCH: Policies for Senior Women Teachers to improve girls’ secondary education

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Children walk to school in Kharay, Dolkha District, some 190 km (118 miles) northeast of Kathmandu September 15, 2013. Devi Budhathoki and three of her children, Manjura, Mandira, and Niraj all suffer from Congenital Hypertrichosis Lanuginosa, a very rare disease that causes excessive body hair growth, and which is sometimes referred to as "werewolf syndrome". They are undergoing laser hair removal in order to lessen their symptoms. Picture taken September 15, 2013. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar (NEPAL - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY EDUCATION)

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WATCH: Empowering adolescent girls in rural Nepal

Wednesday, December 21, 2016