Education

Pre K students Malakai Ruth , Maverick McClelland and Liam Vardales , right help Sheila Chambers carry the Kindness Quilt made of drawings of what the preschoolers thought kindness looked like during a presentation at the Pre K class at the YMCA Innovation Hub in Lakeland Fl. Monday Oct. 25 2021.Early Learning Coalition is teaching pre-K students about social and emotional skills to stop bullying. ERNST PETERS/ THE LEDGER102521 Ep Kind 1 News

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Staffing and compensation are at the heart of building a better early childhood system

Daphna Bassok, Anna J. Markowitz, Katherine Miller-Baines, and Isabelle Fares

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

A daycare teacher reads a book to her students.

Education Plus Development

The ‘real’ economic advantage of investing in families this holiday season

Hailey M. Gibbs, Margaret Burchinal, and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Tuesday, November 30, 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

Reports

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

Essay

Building skills for life: How to expand and improve computer science education around the world

Emiliana Vegas, Michael Hansen, and Brian Fowler

Monday, October 25, 2021

Teaching at the right level in Cote d'Ivoire

Report

Renforcer les capacités en lecture et calcul des enfants en Côte d’Ivoire

Molly Curtiss Wyss and Jenny Perlman Robinson

Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Report

Improving children’s reading and math at large scale in Côte d’Ivoire

Molly Curtiss Wyss and Jenny Perlman Robinson

Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Report

Understanding child-friendly urban design

Helen Shwe Hadani, Jennifer S. Vey, Shwetha Parvathy, and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Blog Posts

A Brighton High School senior waits for the graduation ceremony being held at Fenway Park, home of Major League Baseball’s Boston Red Sox for greater safety during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., June 15, 2021. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

How We Rise

Growing up as a Black Male Student in White Suburbia: What I learned

Tim Herd

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

A woman at home uses her phone to talk to a mentor.

Education Plus Development

India should leverage digital mentoring to increase women’s workforce participation

Arundhuti Gupta

Tuesday, November 23, 2021

GWANGJU, SOUTH KOREA - Students listen to online classes in the library of Gwangju University, South Korea on March 16, 2020. Affected by the new coronavirus epidemic, colleges and universities in South Korea delayed the school for two weeks and online teaching activities began.

Brown Center Chalkboard

Access to online college courses can speed students’ degree completion

Christian Fischer, Rachel Baker, Qiujie Li, Gabe Avakian Orona, and Mark Warschauer

Monday, November 22, 2021

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Events

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

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

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Past Event

Girls’ education research and policy symposium: Protecting rights and futures in times of crisis

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Experts

Emiliana Vegas

Co-director - Center for Universal Education

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

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Rebecca Winthrop

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Jenny Perlman Robinson

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Multimedia

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

Podcast Episode

Computer science education builds skills for life

Michael Hansen, Emiliana Vegas, and Fred Dews

Friday, November 19, 2021

Podcast Episode

S1 Ep26: Rebecca Winthrop, The Brookings Institution

Rebecca Winthrop

Remaking Tomorrow

Thursday, November 18, 2021

Jenny Doss, an early childhood special education teacher at Ben Franklin Elementary School, works with her K-5 class at the school in Menomonee Falls on June 8. Doss is speaking out against Republican lawmakers' spending proposal, which only calls for a slight boost in special education funding.MJS-special education funding00p1

Podcast Episode

Challenges to early childhood education in the wake of COVID-19

Jon Valant, Miriam Calderon, Jenna Conway, and Christina Weiland

Friday, September 3, 2021

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