K-12 Education

Ten-year-old pupils take part in a public examination at a school in Dhaka

Student test engagement and its impact on achievement gap estimates

Wednesday, October 18, 2017

A student assembles a model aeroplane during an enrichment class at a secondary school in Singapore October 27, 2016. Picture taken October 27, 2016. REUTERS/Edgar Su - RC17C9D176C0

How do we teach 21st century skills in classrooms?

Esther Care, Helyn Kim, and Alvin Vista

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Students take an examination on an open-air playground at a high school in Yichuan

The costs of misusing test-based accountability in schools

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Children write notes from a makeshift black board at a school in Mwezeni village in South Africa's Eastern Cape Province in this picture taken June 5, 2012. The Eastern Cape, home to giants of the African National Congress like Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu who helped end apartheid and Thabo Mbeki, the nation's second democratically elected president, is a glaring example of the ruling party's failure to deliver its promise of a "better life for all". While thousands of schools wait each year for textbooks and many Eastern Cape children are forced to write on loose sheets, the ANC has produced copious reams of policy papers to be studied by about 3,000 delegates at next week's meeting. Picture taken June 5, 2012. To match Insight SAFRICA-ANC/ REUTERS/Ryan Gray (SOUTH AFRICA - Tags: EDUCATION POLITICS) - GM1E86O1TK601

Real-time scaling, the 2018 World Development Report, and getting millions learning

Jenny Perlman Robinson and Molly Curtiss Wyss

Friday, October 6, 2017

Muslim girls participate in a mathematics class at Al-Haramain madrassa at the Islamic Complex in Cameroon's capital Yaounde, one day before a visit to the city by Pope Benedict XVI, March 16, 2009. Pope Benedict this week makes his first trip to Africa, starting in Yaounde on Tuesday. In many places in Africa, including Cameroon, Catholicism and Islam are fighting for souls. In Cameroon, which has a significant Muslim population, the pope is expected to meet with Muslim clerics. Elsewhere in Africa, the church is increasingly worried about losing ground to charismatic Pentecostal churches. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (CAMEROON EDUCATION SOCIETY RELIGION) - GM1E53G1NIL01

Figures of the week: Africa, education, and the 2018 World Development Report

Friday, October 6, 2017

Teacher Audrey Benes speaks to her kindergarten class at Walsh Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois

Teacher diversity gaps and their evolution under Trump

Michael Hansen and Diana Quintero

Friday, September 29, 2017

Students practise on their iPads at the Steve Jobs school in Sneek

Personalized learning: The importance of teachers in a technology-driven world

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Children play with Microsoft's "Schlaumaeuse" education software that runs on a Windows 8 operated tablet computer during the program's presentation in Berlin

Can education innovations help us leapfrog progress?

Rebecca Winthrop and Adam Barton

Thursday, September 21, 2017

A teacher conducts a German lesson for children of a welcome class for immigrants at the Katharina-Heinroth primary school in Berlin, Germany, September 11, 2015. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch - RTSM05

What should we pay teachers?

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Students make their return to Whitney Young High School in Chicago

Integrating schools in a gentrifying city through choice

Brian Eschbacher

Tuesday, September 19, 2017