Getting millions to learn: What will it take to accelerate progress on meeting the Sustainable Development Goals?
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Getting millions to learn: What will it take to accelerate progress on meeting the Sustainable Development Goals?

Getting millions to learn: What will it take to accelerate progress on meeting the Sustainable Development Goals?
Getting millions to learn: What will it take to accelerate progress on meeting the Sustainable Development Goals?

Scaling quality education: The launch of the Millions Learning report

Do funders help or hinder scaling in education?
In 2015, 193 countries adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a new global agenda that is more ambitious than the preceding Millennium Development Goals and aims to make progress on some of the most pressing issues of our time. Goal 4, “To ensure inclusive and quality education for all, with relevant and effective learning outcomes,” challenges the international education community to meet universal access plus learning by 2030. We know that access to primary schooling has scaled up rapidly over previous decades, but what can be learned from places where transformational changes in learning have occurred? What can governments, civil society, and the private sector do to more actively scale up quality learning?
On April 18-19, the Center for Universal Education (CUE) at Brookings launched “Millions Learning: Scaling Up Quality Education in Developing Countries,” a comprehensive study that examines where learning has improved around the world and what factors have contributed to that process. This two-day event included two sessions. Monday, April 18 focused on the role of global actors in accelerating progress to meeting the SDGs. The second session on Tuesday, April 19 included a presentation of the Millions Learning report followed by panel discussions on the role of financing and technology in scaling education in developing countries.
Agenda
Monday, April 18, 2016 — Opening Remarks
Panel — Strategies and initiatives for meeting the Education Sustainable Development Goal: Reflections from global actors
Julia Gillard
Nonresident Distinguished Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Universal Education
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 — Welcome Remarks
Presentation
Jenny Perlman Robinson
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Universal Education
Panel 1 — Scaling quality education: The launch of the Millions Learning report
Julia Gillard
Nonresident Distinguished Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Universal Education
Madhav Chavan
Co-Founder and President - Pratham
Esvah Chizambe
Assistant Director - Directorate of Teacher Education and Specialized Services
Wendy Kopp
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder - Teach For All
Jenny Perlman Robinson
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Universal Education
Lunch
Julia Gillard
Nonresident Distinguished Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Universal Education
Madhav Chavan
Co-Founder and President - Pratham
Esvah Chizambe
Assistant Director - Directorate of Teacher Education and Specialized Services
Wendy Kopp
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder - Teach For All
Jenny Perlman Robinson
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Universal Education
Panel 2 — Do funders help or hinder scaling in education?
Vineet Bewtra
Director of Investments - Omidyar Network
Jacob Harold
President and Chief Executive Officer - Guidestar
Johannes F. Linn
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Sustainable Development
Reception
Vineet Bewtra
Director of Investments - Omidyar Network
Jacob Harold
President and Chief Executive Officer - Guidestar
Johannes F. Linn
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Sustainable Development
Panel 3 — What role can technology play in scaling education?
Philipp Schmidt
Director of Learning Innovation - MIT Media Lab
Sashwati Banerjee
Managing Director - Sesame Workshop, India
Michael Staton
Partner - Learn Capital
Carol Williams
Country Manager, Ghana - Worldreader
Break
Philipp Schmidt
Director of Learning Innovation - MIT Media Lab
Sashwati Banerjee
Managing Director - Sesame Workshop, India
Michael Staton
Partner - Learn Capital
Carol Williams
Country Manager, Ghana - Worldreader
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