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November 20, 2019
At CGD, we’re working to achieve global gender equality, and in the education program that means a focus on gender equality in education and beyond. Despite access to schooling becoming more equal, gender inequality remains acute and is deeply rooted in economic, polit...
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October 31, 2019
The ‘Learning Adjusted Year of Schooling’ (LAYS) concept, introduced last year by the World Bank, seeks to combine access and learning outcomes into a single measure, allowing funders to compare directly across different kinds of interventions. We like the idea and applaud innovation in ...
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October 28, 2019
In 2014, the DFID released a “rigorous review” of the literature on private schools in developing countries. Five years on, there has been a slew of new studies. Do the conclusions still stand? We carried out a quick scan of the research published since 2014 and found that the recent evi...