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Blog Post
April 10, 2023
Among IDA’s key substantive priorities is gender and development—which sits alongside human capital; fragility, conflict, and violence; jobs and economic transformation; and climate change as an overarching special theme. But despite IDA’s inclusion of gender equality as a theme beginning in 2016, i...
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March 27, 2023
We are often asked whether teacher professional development “works.” But it’s an impossible question to answer because we call so many different things teacher professional development. Some of these things—like coaching in South Africa and Peru, assessment-informed instruction in Liberia, or traini...
Blog Post
March 23, 2023
This week was the Centre for the Study of African Economies’ annual conference. Every year, scholars from around the world—including many based on the African continent—convene to present their research findings on a vast array of topics. This year’s conference included more than 200 presentations o...
Blog Post
March 07, 2023
While learners are at the heart of education, teachers are the main veins carrying blood to that heart. At the recent Comparative and International Education Society conference, I shared ten things—six I know and four I want to know—about supporting teachers to end the global learning crisis.