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Blog Post
May 12, 2022
Girls today are getting more education than ever before. But many girls are still being left behind. How can societies ensure they go the last mile when it comes to guaranteeing all girls have access to primary school, or the last hundred miles when it comes to quality education and access to second...
Blog Post
May 11, 2022
The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set ambitious targets for high-quality, universal education by 2030. But existing efforts to “cost the SDGs” return unattainable price tags. In this chapter, we first review approaches to costing the SDGs in the education sector.
Blog Post
April 28, 2022
CGD's Lee Crawfurd and Aisha Ali make the case for free secondary education, arguing that experiences of free primary education shows how free secondary education could work. And Robert Osei and Kwabena Adu-Ababio say free school is pro-poor for countries that can afford it. But Cambridge University...
Blog Post
April 26, 2022
The latest survey data and instruments from the Partnership for Research on Progress and Resilience in Education (PREPARE), covering Ghana, Malawi, and Senegal are now out. Launched by CGD in May 2021, PREPARE data is helping us understand the impact of COVID-19 on education systems. This blog summa...