Education Technology

Makpal Abrazakova, 25, uses her computer to chat with friends in her home in Aksu-Ayuly in central Kazakhstan, February 23, 2012. Makpal, who is professionally trained as a lawyer, is the only female eagle hunter in Kazakhstan. She started learning falconry from her father at the age of 13. Picture taken February 23, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (KAZAKHSTAN - Tags: SOCIETY ANIMALS) - GM1E8330ED901

Education Plus Development

Revolutionizing online education: A conversation with President Michael Crow of Arizona State University

Emal Dusst and Rebecca Winthrop

Friday, May 17, 2019

Students use computers at the Vezina Secondary School in the Attawapiskat First Nation in northern Ontario, Canada, April 15, 2016. REUTERS/Chris Wattie - GF10000384122

Brown Center Chalkboard

A look inside online learning settings in high schools

Carolyn J. Heinrich, Jennifer Darling-Aduana, Annalee Good, and Huiping (Emily) Cheng

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Elementary school children share an electronic tablet on the first day of class in the new school year in Nice, September 3, 2013. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard (FRANCE - Tags: EDUCATION) - PM1E99310XV01

Brown Center Chalkboard

Is technology good or bad for learning?

Saro Mohammed, Ph.D.

Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Global Research Network on Terrorism and Technology: The inaugural conference

8:30 AM - 5:45 PM EDT

Reports

Boys play at a school in Yemen's capital Sanaa sheltering them and their families after the conflict forced them to flee their areas from the Houthi-controlled northern province of Saada August 4, 2015. A Saudi-led Arab alliance launched a military campaign on March 26 to end Houthi control over much of Yemen and to return President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi from exile. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah - GF20000013228

Report

How playful learning can help leapfrog progress in education

Rebecca Winthrop

Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Park Hye-ri, 28, a startup business program manager, who spent time at Prison Inside Me, a mock prison facility, uses a laptop at a cafe in Incheon, South Korea, November 13, 2018. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji SEARCH "PRISON RETREAT" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RC148F7054E0

Higher Education

The failings of online for-profit colleges: Findings from student borrower focus groups

Robin Howarth and Lisa Stifler

Thursday, March 28, 2019

A school bus sits parked along a street in the Queens borough of New York January 16, 2013. For the first time in 34 years, New York City bus drivers went on strike, stranding up to 152,000 students in the nation's largest public school system on sleet-soaked Wednesday morning. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - GM1E91H00RI01

Education

The opportunities and risks of K-12 student placement algorithms

Matt Kasman and Jon Valant

Thursday, February 28, 2019

Primary school students wear virtual reality (VR) headsets inside a classroom in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan province, China March 14, 2018. Picture taken March 14, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. CHINA OUT. - RC16E4321880

Education Technology

Why we need to rethink education in the artificial intelligence age

Thursday, January 31, 2019

Rachel Wilson (L), of Rockville, Maryland, speaks with Yash Parbhu of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania while learning about the code for some of Google's new APIs at the Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco June 26, 2014. Women attendees constituted 20% of the conference's attendance this year, up from 8% last year. REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) - GM1EA6R0IP701

Workforce Development

The role of AI in education and the changing US workforce

Elizabeth Mann Levesque

Thursday, October 18, 2018

Blog Posts

A boy plays Nintendo's game console prior to a parade where Pokemon's character Pikachu attends, in Yokohama, Japan, August 7, 2016. Picture taken on August 7, 2016. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon - S1AEUJDOXRAB

Education Plus Development

Children need digital mentorship, not WHO’s restrictions on screen time

Friday, April 26, 2019

Howard Jackson, a Liberian migrant, attends a law class at a university in the Andalusian capital of Seville, southern Spain March 8, 2016. Jackson escaped civil war and spent three years crossing Africa before reaching Spain. Dressed up in one of his more than 200 costumes, from Peter Pan to Little Red Riding Hood, he is a well-known figure at an intersection entering the Spanish city of Seville where he has sold tissues to motorists for over a decade. Jackson is studying law and wants to become a judge. REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo SEARCH "MIGRANT JACKSON" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "THE WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES - GF10000350822

Education Plus Development

Top 6 trends in higher education

Emal Dusst and Rebecca Winthrop

Thursday, January 10, 2019

Kids sitting on the floor

Education Plus Development

How do you scale spirit?

Chavi Jain, Moitshepi Matsheng, and Jenny Perlman Robinson

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

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Development Seminar | No free lunch: Using technology to improve the efficacy of school feeding programmes

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Tiffin Talks @ Brookings India | What is the state of Aadhaar?

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