Education in Developing Nations

A classroom in Hong Kong

Addressing delivery challenges in education: Lessons from Millions Learning case studies

Sruti Bandyopadhyay and Jenny Perlman Robinson

Monday, June 5, 2017

Refugee schoolchildren receive their new books on the first day of the new school year at one of the UNRWA schools at a Palestinian refugee camp al Wehdat in Amman

Concerned about the Paris Agreement? There’s still hope through girls’ education

Rebecca Winthrop and Christina Kwauk

Friday, June 2, 2017

Schoolgirls queue up to receive from authorities at government school in Mumbai

WATCH: What are the key ingredients to scaling quality learning?

Jenny Perlman Robinson and Molly Curtiss Wyss

Thursday, May 25, 2017

A Play Lab in Bangladesh

The play’s the thing: Active pedagogies to improve learning

David Whitebread

Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Displaced Iraqi children play inside a tent as they wait for the arrival of United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres during his visit at Hasansham camp, in Khazer, Iraq March 31, 2017. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTX33HJ8

New data on the breadth of skills movement: Consolidation

Susannah Horton, Helyn Kim, and Esther Care

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Colombian children attend class at the school in Micoahumado, Bolivar Province in this picture taken on February 28, 2005. The children of Micoahumado never had to dream up excuses to stay away from school, they did not have that luxury. Until recently, Micoahumado was one of the most heavily mined areas of Colombia, which has the fourth-highest total of landmine victims in the world, after Chechnya, Afghanistan and Cambodia. Many of the 600 Colombians killed or maimed by the devices last year were children. Picture taken February 28, 2005. REUTERS/Eliana Aponte/FEATURE/COLOMBIA-LANDMINES EA/HB - RTR5AB4

Latin American countries pay attention to global assessments of student learning

Emiliana Vegas and Pablo Zoido

Monday, April 24, 2017

Children attend the opening of a psychological support centre for children in Da'el town, north of Deraa, Syria, August 1, 2015. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Faqir - RTX1MONN

Skills for a changing world: The global movement to prepare students for the 21st century

Monday, April 24, 2017

Students repeat a lesson in class at a school in Yemen's capital Sanaa April 17, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayaghi - RTS12ME1

How to get millions learning: From evidence to action

Jenny Perlman Robinson and Molly Curtiss Wyss

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

A parent of one of the abducted Chibok school girls cries after the police prevented the parents access to see President Muhammadu Buhari during a rally in Abuja, Nigeria August 25, 2016. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde - RTX2N12S

How girls’ education intersects with violent extremism

Amanda Braga and Christina Kwauk

Thursday, April 13, 2017

Students count with their fingers as a teacher teaches the 2013 curriculum inside a classroom at Cempaka Putih district in Jakarta, October 15, 2014. Indonesia plans to discontinue early next year the widely criticised school curriculum that emphasises moral and religious education, a minister said on Monday. Picture taken October 15, 2014. REUTERS/Beawiharta (INDONESIA - Tags: EDUCATION POLITICS) - RTR4H4JC

Can transparency improve schooling? Sometimes.

Lindsay Read and Tamar Manuelyan Atinc

Monday, April 10, 2017