Education in Developing Nations

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 teacher teaches Chinese language to kids in a school at Namtit, Wa territory in north east Myanmar November 30, 2016. Picture taken on November 30, 2016. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun - RTSVKA0

Assessment of transversal competencies: Policy and practice in the Asia-Pacific region

Esther Care and Rebekah Luo

UNESCO Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Assessment of collaborative problem-solving processes

By Esther Care and Patrick Griffin

An indigenous Sahrawi teacher checks her schoolchildren's workbooks as she sits at her desk next to a photograph of Mohamed Abdelaziz, president of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, at a school in a refugee camp of Boudjdour in Tindouf, southern Algeria March 3, 2016. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is scheduled to visit the Sahrawi refugees in south-west Algeria's Tindouf region. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra - RTS95PV

It’s time to mobilize around a new approach to educational assessment

Alvin Vista and Esther Care

SSIR Thursday, April 13, 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

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

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

Esther Care, Sean Slade, Ramya Vivekanandan, and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Children hold up a paper chain of children holding hands, in front of the Berlin landmark Brandenburg Gate May 31, 2007, to demand education for all in the world under the G8 leader's motto 'hand in hand', ahead of the June 6-8 G8 leaders summit in the Baltic Sea resort of Heiligendamm. Several dozen youth from all over the world gathered in Berlin on Thursday to promote the 'global campaign for education' - that fights for universal primary education for all children around the globe. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay (GERMANY) - RTR1QAC7

Measuring global citizenship education

Kate Anderson and Jasodhara Bhattacharya

Tuesday, April 11, 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

Zeinab, 14, writes in class at a school near a camp for internally displaced people from drought hit areas in Dollow, Somalia April 3, 2017. REUTERS/ Zohra Bensemra SEARCH "ZEINAB DOLLOW" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RTX34W48

Innovative financing in education talk show

Emily Gustafsson-Wright

Results for Development Friday, April 7, 2017