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September 28, 2021
Last week was the annual conference for the Research on Improving Systems of Education (or RISE) program, a large scale, multi-country research program developed to answer the question: “How can education systems be reformed to deliver better learning for all?” You can read the full conference progr...
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September 24, 2021
Hi all, In a nice change from opening the links with the obit of one of my favourite musicians or actors, this week I get to celebrate an 87 year old genius doing something amazing: Wole Soyinka (author of two of my favourite autobiographies ever, one for each end of his&nbs...
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September 17, 2021
Hi all, One day I will start a crowdfunder to get the start up capital for a pet project of mine: the Bad Idea Hall of Fame, a place that records and denigrates the dumbest things people have done. In it will be the first draft of Gigli, a video of the homophobes who tried to attack two men dre...
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September 10, 2021
There was some good this week, too, though – most notably the ten-year anniversary of Michael Clemens’s seminal Journal of Economic Perspectives paper, Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk? The anniversary prompted Michael to discuss the struggles he had in ...
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September 01, 2021
Calls have been made for the international community to protect and support education for Afghan children at home and abroad. Last week Gordon Brown urged the G7 to continue funding education for girls in Afghanistan, as long as the Taliban government allows girls to attend school. We agree, but wit...
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August 20, 2021
Normally when a policy goes awry, you have to really search for the evidence to prove it. It’s pretty rare that things go wrong quite as quickly, viscerally and heartbreakingly as they are in Afghanistan right now. This is the place where I usually insert a pithy joke, but my well of amusement has r...
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August 11, 2021
How much learning did children lose whilst schools were closed in 2020? Whilst hard data is still scarce, the opinions of parents in Ghana are clear. Our survey of almost 3,700 households carried out from the 8th to 22nd of March in 2021 found that over 85 percent of parents said their children defi...
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August 10, 2021
The education gaps that are closing between boys and girls in many countries persist in Pakistan. Our large new household survey on the factors associated with differences in gender norms sheds light on what policymakers can do in the post-COVID world to address the gender gap and improve opportunit...
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July 30, 2021
That was a well-timed week off: we arrived in Cornwall in glorious sunshine and left just as the rain clouds (and summer holiday visitors) began to gather. In between, there was an inhuman quantity of fish and chips and pasties, scallops barbecued on the shell, “swimming” expeditions that involved s...