The paper highlights the need for a sharper focus on foundational skills in light of school closures due to COVID-19 as many primary-school-aged children would have missed critical foundational learning…
Because of the rapid expansion of EdTech as a substitute for traditional learning around the world and against the backdrop of full-scale temporary substitution due to the coronavirus pandemic, this…
This study reports a randomized control trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a tablet intervention for supporting the development of early mathematical skills in primary school children in Malawi. Very…
This study explores the potential of enabling parents to provide literacy development opportunities at home as a low-cost alternative. A randomized field trial of a summer text-messaging pilot program was…
Vocabulary is critical to literacy development in early childhood, yet large disparities in vocabulary knowledge persist between children from high-income and low-income backgrounds. In a randomized evaluation, researchers evaluated the…
This study attempts to understand the effectiveness of education governance, specifically the monitoring function, through the perspectives of frontline officials in India. It locates institutions within social and political structures…
Tanzania’s Big Results Now! (BRN) Education was a transformational government led programme initiated in 2013 and which sought to apply the Delivery Approach to adopt learning orientated education reforms, to…
This paper takes an updated look at the Education Reform Support series and attempts to consolidate many of its theories, frameworks,and operational guidelines. Ten years of experience have reconfirmed the…
In this article, the authors dissect the Liberian and Kenyan experiences with implementing large‐scale reading programs, documenting the critical components and conditions of the program designs that affected the likelihood…
Existing systems of education have some elements promoting learning as an objective, but are mainly coherent as systems only around enrollment targets. This paper builds an accountability framework of actors…
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