Education

Children in India attend school during COVID.

Education Plus Development

Why Indian NGOs are developing a shared education agenda in reaction to COVID-19

Rebecca Winthrop

Wednesday, January 19, 2022

English teacher Connie Bowen in the classroom at Ecole Saint-Landry, a French immersion charter school in Sunset. Monday, Jan. 10, 2022.Ecole St Landry 7252

Brown Center Chalkboard

Feedback on teacher evaluations misses the mark

Seth B. Hunter and Matthew G. Springer

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

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Report

Student loan forgiveness is regressive whether measured by income, education, or wealth

Adam Looney

Friday, January 14, 2022

A student at Walter H. Dyett High School walks through the hallway in Chicago, Illinois, in this photo taken on October 5, 2012. The bipartisan education reform movement sweeping the nation calls for rating schools by their students' test scores and then taking drastic steps to overhaul the worst performers by firing the teachers, turning the schools over to private management or shutting them down altogether. But in communities across the United States, anger at school closures is rising. REUTERS/Jim Young

Brown Center Chalkboard

Corporal punishment, schools, and race: An update

Dick Startz

Friday, January 14, 2022

Reports

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Increasing girls’ access to formal agricultural education in Afghanistan

Nangyalai Attal

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Children in Malawi learn at an outdoor school.

Report

Scaling education innovations for impact in low- and middle-income countries during COVID

Brad Olsen

Thursday, December 16, 2021

A young woman in India talks to her mentor on the phone.

Report

Unlocking young women’s economic potential through digital mentoring in India

Arundhuti Gupta

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Children in Nigeria do their school work during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Report

Gender-responsive education in emergency in Nigeria

Edem Dorothy Ossai

Monday, November 29, 2021

An entrepreneur in Vietnam holds a bowl she made.

Report

Demand-driven and gender-responsive policies for promoting entrepreneurship among women in Vietnam

Tran Thi Ngoc Tran

Monday, November 29, 2021

Blog Posts

Afghan girls study at an open area, founded by Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), outside Jalalabad city, Afghanistan September 16, 2015. REUTERS/Parwiz

Education Plus Development

To help ensure food and economic security in Afghanistan, invest in the skills of young women and girls

Nangyalai Attal

Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Students check their lockers as they arrive for the first day of the 2021-22 school year Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021, at HSE Intermediate & Junior High School.Hse Schools Begin Their First Day Of The 2021 22 School Year

Brown Center Chalkboard

Keeping schools open during COVID-19 is hard, but it can be done

Douglas N. Harris

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Teacher Mary Yi works with fourth grade students at the Sokolowski School, where students and teachers are required to wear masks because of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Chelsea, Massachusetts, U.S., September 15, 2021. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Brown Center Chalkboard

What education policy experts are watching for in 2022

Daphna Bassok, Stephanie Riegg Cellini, Michael Hansen, Douglas N. Harris, Jon Valant, and Kenneth K. Wong

Friday, January 7, 2022

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Experts

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BAMYAN, AFGHANISTAN - NOVEMBER 8, 2021: Tenth-grade pupils attend a lesson at a secondary school for girls. Upon the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, the Taliban movement (banned in Russia) declared the establishment of its control over the whole country on September 6, a new government formed a day later. Among other reforms, the Taliban have also introduced a number of restrictions concerning education and employment for girls and women. Alexandra Kovalskaya/TASS.No use Russia.

Podcast Episode

Echidna Global Scholars: Better learning opportunities and life outcomes for girls and young women

Jennifer L. O’Donoghue, Nangyalai Attal, Arundhuti Gupta, Edem Dorothy Ossai, and Tran Thi Ngoc Tran

Thursday, December 23, 2021

An empty computer science classroom is seen at the University of Somalia in Mogadishu, July 13, 2017. Picture taken July 13, 2017. REUTERS/Feisal Omar

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Computer science education builds skills for life

Michael Hansen, Emiliana Vegas, and Fred Dews

Friday, November 19, 2021

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Reports

How do we measure global citizenship education?

How do we expand and sustain quality learning for children and youth?

From COVID-19 to culture wars: The growing hostility of education politics

Co-director - Center for Universal Education

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Governance Studies, Brown Center on Education Policy

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Executive Director, Marriner S. Eccles Institute, University of Utah