Early Childhood Education

Children write notes from a makeshift black board at a school in Mwezeni village in South Africa's Eastern Cape Province in this picture taken June 5, 2012. The Eastern Cape, home to giants of the African National Congress like Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu who helped end apartheid and Thabo Mbeki, the nation's second democratically elected president, is a glaring example of the ruling party's failure to deliver its promise of a "better life for all". While thousands of schools wait each year for textbooks and many Eastern Cape children are forced to write on loose sheets, the ANC has produced copious reams of policy papers to be studied by about 3,000 delegates at next week's meeting. Picture taken June 5, 2012. To match Insight SAFRICA-ANC/ REUTERS/Ryan Gray (SOUTH AFRICA - Tags: EDUCATION POLITICS) - GM1E86O1TK601

Education Plus Development

Real-time scaling, the 2018 World Development Report, and getting millions learning

Jenny Perlman Robinson and Molly Curtiss

Friday, October 6, 2017

Muslim girls participate in a mathematics class at Al-Haramain madrassa at the Islamic Complex in Cameroon's capital Yaounde, one day before a visit to the city by Pope Benedict XVI, March 16, 2009. Pope Benedict this week makes his first trip to Africa, starting in Yaounde on Tuesday. In many places in Africa, including Cameroon, Catholicism and Islam are fighting for souls. In Cameroon, which has a significant Muslim population, the pope is expected to meet with Muslim clerics. Elsewhere in Africa, the church is increasingly worried about losing ground to charismatic Pentecostal churches. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (CAMEROON EDUCATION SOCIETY RELIGION) - GM1E53G1NIL01

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Friday, October 6, 2017

A farmer looks at coffee beans at a coffee farm in the jungle of Villa Rica June 7, 2012. The high humidity and rich soil in the central jungle allow farmers to produce quality Arabica beans that is mostly for export. In 2010, the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) awarded Peruvian coffee 'El Tunki' as the best special coffee in the world. Picture taken June 7, 2012. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares (PERU - Tags: ENVIRONMENT BUSINESS) - GM2E8690U0K01

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Thursday, September 28, 2017

Students at the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School work on their laptops during a class in Dorchester, Massachusetts June 20, 2008.

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Leapfrogging toward success in education

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Friday, September 22, 2017

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Students play with their iPads at the Steve Jobs school in Sneek August 21, 2013. The Steve Jobs schools in the Netherlands are founded by the O4NT (Education For A New Time) organisation, which provides the children with iPads to help them learn with a more interactive experience. REUTERS/Michael Kooren (NETHERLANDS - Tags: SOCIETY EDUCATION SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) - GM1E98L1HND01

Education in Developing Nations

Can we leapfrog? The potential of education innovations to rapidly accelerate progress

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September 19, 2017

Development Financing

Impact bonds in developing countries: Early learnings from the field

Emily Gustafsson-Wright, Izzy Boggild-Jones, Dean Segell, and Justice Durland

September 18, 2017

Early Childhood Education

SECT: The standardized early childhood development costing tool

Emily Gustafsson-Wright, Izzy Boggild-Jones, and Sophie Gardiner

Tuesday, September 5, 2017

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Tuesday, August 15, 2017

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A student in a kindergarten class listens to his teacher at Walsh Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois

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Friday, September 1, 2017

Katy Yeager Gooding plays with her baby Kennedy Gooding at her grandparents' home in Barboursville, West Virginia, October 18, 2015. Picture taken October 18, 2015. To match Special Report BABY-OPIOIDS/ REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RTX1XMZ3

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Monday, August 21, 2017

A preschooler stays in class as he refuses to join his classmates for outdoor activities during his first day of school in Putrajaya

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A high school student tests a "Quipus" laptop during a presentation ceremony in El Alto, July 31, 2014. Some 15,000 public school students received the laptops, assembled by Bolivian state-run company Quipus, during the ceremony. According to local media, El Alto schools will receive a total of some 140,000 laptops this year as part of a government initiative to provide final-year high school students with access to a new laptop, aiming to incorporate the use of new technology in educational institutions. REUTERS/David Mercado (BOLIVIA - Tags: EDUCATION POLITICS SOCIETY) - RTR40UBC

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Students arrive at the Walton Rural Life Center Elementary School, in Walton, Kansas, January 18, 2013. Students at the school do farm chores at the beginning of each school day. The Walton Rural Life Center - a kindergarten through fourth grade charter school in rural Kansas - uses agriculture to teach students about math, science, economics. REUTERS/Jeff Tuttle (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION AGRICULTURE SOCIETY) - RTR3DVPU

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Pre-schooler Cecil Smith (L), 4, holds the hand of a teacher's assistant as he prepares to go to class after he and classmates were given Mardi Gras beads, on the first day of school since Hurricane Katrina hit over a month ago, at an elementary school in Metairie, Louisiana October 3, 2005. Public schools opened throughout Jefferson Parish, including Metairie, a suburb of New Orleans. REUTERS/Lee Celano - RTR18O4R

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Early Childhood Education

Real-time scaling, the 2018 World Development Report, and getting millions learning

Figures of the week: Africa, education, and the 2018 World Development Report

What’s next for impact bonds in developing countries?

Leapfrogging toward success in education

Reports

Can we leapfrog? The potential of education innovations to rapidly accelerate progress

Impact bonds in developing countries: Early learnings from the field

SECT: The standardized early childhood development costing tool

Investing in the next generation: A bottom-up approach to creating better outcomes for children and youth

Meaningful education in times of uncertainty

Blog Posts

ABCs and SEL: Integrating social and emotional learning into academic preschools

Brain matter matters: Should we intervene well before preschool?

Building better preschools—but for which kids?

Events

Impact bonds in developing countries

The future of school-based social and emotional learning programs

What we know about the effects of pre-K in 6 consensus statements

Related Books

Policies to Address Poverty in America

Investing in Children

Experts

Emily Gustafsson-Wright

Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Universal Education

Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

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Teaching for the 21st century: Broader skills for global citizens

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