Center for Universal Education

Giving girls wings to fly: Tools to empower adolescent girls in rural communities in India

Monday, November 6, 2017

A girl from the "Insurgentes de la Paz" (Peace Insurgents) school hangs up her school bag near an old bus turned into her classroom in the settlement of Pueblo Nuevo, Oaxaca September 1, 2009. The children receive classes in an old bus donated to the neighbourhood by a truck company after the other classrooms became too small for the 83 children at the school. Mexico, ridden with organized crime and drug gang violence, ranks poorly in education standards, which is holding back the country's economic growth and development according to analysts. Picture taken September 1, 2009. REUTERS/Jorge Luis Plata (MEXICO POLITICS EDUCATION SOCIETY) - GM1E5950BSU01

Fostering resilience in indigenous Maya girls: The power of education

María Cristina Osorio Vázquez

Monday, November 6, 2017

A girl looks out of her classroom window as she starts her first day of school for six months since teachers went on strike over pay sparking a conflict which turned into a major social crisis in Oaxaca's capital November 16, 2006 REUTERS/Stringer (MEXICO) - GM1DTYPIVJAA

Understanding girls’ education in indigenous Maya communities in the Yucatán Peninsula

María Cristina Osorio Vázquez

Monday, November 6, 2017

Girls play a clapping game during a weekly education session about breast ironing and rape by survivor of breast ironing Julie Ndjessa at Ndjessa's family home in Douala, Cameroon, November 3, 2013. New government research shows that 'breast ironing,' where the breasts of young girls are flattened using a hot stone, has seen a 50 percent decline since it was first accidentally uncovered during a 2005 survey by the German Technical Cooperation Agency (GTZ) on rape and incest in Cameroon. Picture taken November 3, 2013. REUTERS/Joe Penney (CAMEROON - Tags: SOCIETY HEALTH) - GM1EA1703F201

Translating competencies to empowered action

Christina Kwauk and Amanda Braga

November 6, 2017

Students cross their arms to demonstrate they are listening carefully

WATCH: How big is the learning crisis — and can we do anything about it?

Jenny Perlman Robinson and Molly Curtiss Wyss

Friday, November 3, 2017

Palestinian schoolchildren attend a lesson in a classroom on the first day of a new school year, at a United Nations-run school in Khan Young in the southern Gaza Strip August 28, 2016. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa - S1AETXZTQKAA

How can teachers be more gender inclusive in the classroom?

Christina Kwauk and Sarah Bever

Thursday, November 2, 2017

Teacher Audrey Benes speaks to her kindergarten class at Walsh Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois

Teaching problem solving: Let students get ‘stuck’ and ‘unstuck’

Kate Mills and Helyn Kim

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

A girl writes on a chalkboard at school.

How investing in girls’ education can help fight climate change

Christina Kwauk and Fred Dews

Friday, October 27, 2017

A woman is silhouetted next to a solar panel display by solar module supplier Upsolar at the fourth International Photovoltaic Power Generation (PV) Expo in Tokyo March 2, 2011. More than 600 companies in the solar energy business from 18 countries are taking part in the March 2-4 expo, which showcases firms and products related to photovoltaic power generation, according to the organiser. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao (JAPAN - Tags: BUSINESS SCI TECH ENVIRONMENT) - GM1E7321H1O01

Green skills for girls in a green economy

Christina Kwauk and Amanda Braga

Monday, October 23, 2017

A student assembles a model aeroplane during an enrichment class at a secondary school in Singapore October 27, 2016. Picture taken October 27, 2016. REUTERS/Edgar Su - RC17C9D176C0

How do we teach 21st century skills in classrooms?

Esther Care, Helyn Kim, and Alvin Vista

Tuesday, October 17, 2017