Education

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

Timothy 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

A Vietnamese woman wears traditional "ao dai" dress and a conical hat in downtown's Vietnam's central city of Da Nang. A Vietnamese woman wears traditional "ao dai" dress and a conical hat in downtown Vietnam's central city of Da Nang March 8, 2005. 40 years after the first American troops arrived in Da Nang on March 8, 1965 to fight in the Vietnam War which cost 58,000 American and 3,000,000 Vietnamese lives, a U.S. military team of about 100 flew into Da Nang early this month as part of continuing U.S. efforts to locate about 1,800 soldiers still listed as missing. REUTERS/Kham

Education Plus Development

A 3-pronged approach to meet the needs of aspiring women entrepreneurs in Vietnam

Tran Thi Ngoc Tran

Monday, November 22, 2021

Reports

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

Report

Improving learning and life skills for marginalized children

Patrick Hannahan, Jenny Perlman Robinson, and Christina Kwauk

Friday, October 15, 2021

Blog Posts

A girl in Nigeria smiles in her classroom.

Education Plus Development

Nigeria needs a gender-responsive approach to education in emergencies

Edem Dorothy Ossai

Friday, November 19, 2021

Kindergarden students work in classrooms at Ross Elementary School in Topeka Wednesday morning.

Brown Center Chalkboard

Using classroom simulators to transform teacher preparation

Julie Cohen and Vivian Wong

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

Education Plus Development

Holiday shopping in gender-neutral toy aisles? Playing for the future

Elana Herbst, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Wednesday, November 10, 2021

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Events

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Nov

Upcoming Event

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

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EST

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

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST

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

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM EST

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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

Co-director - Center for Universal Education

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

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Jenny Perlman Robinson

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Universal Education

@JennyPerlman

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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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