What can the social sector learn from tech startups?

South Park Commons on how some in the social sector use tools and models from the tech industry in their work to reduce poverty.

The lasting harm of COVID school closures

Project Syndicate on the lasting harm of COVID-related school closures, and measures that could mitigate this.

Remote learning solutions for resilient education systems: Seven resource packs to guide governments and policymakers

The case studies in the resource packs illustrate how successful remote learning programs worldwide have depended upon teachers, parents, and the broader community to enable and support remote learning.

How governments can use better, faster, and cheaper evidence to improve people’s lives

Governments make thousands of decisions a year — big and small — often with insufficient relevant information. How might we increase the likelihood that those decisions improve people’s lives?

The state of the global education crisis: A path to recovery

In addition to necessitating urgent recovery efforts, the pandemic offers a rare opportunity to rethink and reset education provision so children across all identities, socioeconomic backgrounds and circumstances can learn and thrive.

The Drum Beat - positive ups and downs: impact research

Data on the impacts of our work are essential. Such data are the basis for: ensuring our accountability to the people, communities, and countries with which we work; learning what works so as to increase the effectiveness of our work; and making the policy and funding case for action towards more informed and engaged societies.

How African countries can reform education to get ahead after pandemic school closures

In a new paper, we looked at how much learning loss might be experienced in Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, Tanzania and Uganda as a result of school closures in the pandemic.

COVID-19 creates a window for school reform in Africa

The Economist looks at the effect of COVID-19-related school closures on learning, and opportunities.

A year later: Reflections on learning, adapting, and scaling education interventions during COVID-19

The experience of the Botswana scaling lab over the past year offers several important insights and reflections that may be useful more broadly for those working to affect large-scale improvements in children’s learning, particularly in low-resource environments.

Education in 2021: perspectives from Botswana

The Teaching at the Right Level approach — delivered both in schools and its principles delivered virtually through mobile phones — is a way to address the learning crisis and build back better to enable all children to achieve foundational learning.