Coronavirus (COVID-19) Families, Communities, and Education

Pupils of Kilimani Primary School attend class while wearing face masks following the full-reopening of schools in the country after the government closed all learning institutions due to COVID-19. (Photo by Dennis Sigwe / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Education Plus Development

Remember the fundamentals as we build back better in girls’ education

Stephanie Psaki and Karen Austrian

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Up Front

Higher education’s reopening decisions affected the most vulnerable students

Kristen E. Broady, Eliana Buckner, Jennifer Umanzor, and Sarah Wheaton

Monday, January 11, 2021

Education Plus Development

How can we implement education for climate action and climate justice?

Christina Kwauk

Monday, January 11, 2021

Education Plus Development

Reimagining girls’ education during COVID-19: Lessons from adapting programs and measures

Christine H. Beggs and Lucina Di Meco

Thursday, January 7, 2021

Reports

Report

A new green learning agenda: Approaches to quality education for climate action

Christina Kwauk and Olivia Casey

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Labor Policy & Unemployment

Preparing U.S. workers for the post-COVID economy: Higher education, workforce training and labor unions

Kristen E. Broady, Moriah Macklin, and Jimmy O’Donnell

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

People walk past the entrance of PS 234 Independence School as elementary schools to reopen, New York, NY, December 7, 2020. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that public pre-K and elementary schools can return to in-person learning on Dec. 7., while middle and high schools remain closed; Schools were closed on Nov. 18 when the city surpassed the 3% infection rate threshold set by the Mayor de Blasio. (Photo by Anthony Behar/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Across nine months, COVID-19 hit some US places worse than others. Now, it’s almost everywhere.

William H. Frey

Monday, December 7, 2020

Essay

Windfall profits and deadly risks

Molly Kinder, Laura Stateler, and Julia Du

Friday, November 20, 2020

Report

Global education: How to transform school systems?

Emiliana Vegas and Rebecca Winthrop

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Blog Posts

Up Front

Rethinking social insurance: Policies to protect workers and families

Wendy Edelberg and Stephanie Lu

Thursday, January 7, 2021

Education Plus Development

COVID-19 sparks an overdue discussion on education reform: An optimistic vision

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Elias Blinkoff, Helen Shwe Hadani, and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

Monday, January 4, 2021

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos testifies via video conference during a hearing of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law on "Online Platforms and Market Power", in the Rayburn House office Building on Capitol Hill, in Washington, U.S., July 29, 2020. Graeme Jennings/Pool via REUTERS

TechTank

The TechTank Podcast looks back at important stories from 2020

Jack Karsten

Monday, December 28, 2020

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Events

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Experts

Varun Gauri

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

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John Sabelhaus

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Mark MacCarthy

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Governance Studies, Center for Technology Innovation

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Multimedia

Podcast Episode

Education, disrupted

Jenny Perlman Robinson and Emiliana Vegas

New Foundations, The Economist Intelligence Unit

Monday, November 30, 2020

Podcast Episode

How the pandemic can accelerate scaling educational innovations

Rebecca Winthrop and Jenny Perlman Robinson

Silver Lining for Learning

Monday, October 12, 2020

Port-au-Prince, Haiti.- In the April 24, 2020 file photo, children in Haiti try to educate themselves amid the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). The socioeconomic effects of the coronavirus pandemic could set back "decades" the progress made in the education of girls and adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean, many of which may "never return to the classroom", as it has warned this Tuesday, International Plan. The NGO estimates that currently some 500 million children and young people around the world are not receiving distance education, "something that is having devastating consequences in Latin America and the Caribbean", where more than 95 percent of minors have remained outside of classrooms without many of them being able to follow classes online.

Podcast Episode

What’s the state of global girls’ education during COVID?

Christina Kwauk and Adrianna Pita

Friday, October 9, 2020

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More on Coronavirus (COVID-19) Families, Communities, and Education

A male student uses hand sanitizer at his desk.

2020: A year of turmoil but also hope in education

Emiliana Vegas and Rebecca Winthrop

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Amazon and Walmart have raked in billions in additional profits during the pandemic, and shared almost none of it with their workers

Molly Kinder and Laura Stateler

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Millions of young adults are out of school or work. We need an Education and Employment Promise

Martha Ross and Thomas Showalter

Friday, December 18, 2020

How best to design, adapt, and scale education innovations to meet the needs of more children?

Jenny Perlman Robinson

Thursday, December 17, 2020

Just before COVID-19, American migration hit a 73-year low

William H. Frey

Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Helping high schoolers prepare for a disrupted job market in San Francisco

Martha Ross and Nicole Bateman

Friday, December 11, 2020

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Reports

Why Black America needs a Tech New Deal

School choice in a time of transition

Economic recovery in American cities: Building Black businesses and wealth

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Governance Studies, Center for Technology Innovation