With developing countries in an economic crunch, education policymakers may be facing cuts to their budgets. In part two of our series on education finance we’re examining the biggest-ticket item in most education budgets: teacher salaries.

In this blog we preview a new measure of country effort to improve girl’s education—The Girl’s Education Policy Index.

Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford’s campaign to get the UK government to feed disadvantaged children during the school holidays is a masterclass in campaigning: a single, achievable policy issue, phenomenal use of his platform, backed with good data and an increasingly strong coalition of...

After six months of school closures, Pakistan began reopening its schools in a phased manner on September 15. Schools had been shut since March 13, 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. To understand the impacts, CGD partnered with TCF in Pakistan and with CERP to survey households wi...

Edtech obviously has its limits as a replacement for school during pandemic-response closures. But for governments that do want to invest in edtech, where should they start? In this blog, we focus on the household-based interventions that could be most impactful during the current crisis

Even aside from their obvious, critical role in educating the next generation, there are a host of other reasons to care about teachers. In a new working paper, we look at why should you care about teacher labor markets, from the interaction between the wages offered and recruitment numbers targeted...

In a year marked by pandemic and protest, good books are more important than ever. We're back with more hand-picked recommendations from CGD's staff and researchers to help you better understand, empathize with, or escape the world.