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The Politics of Transforming Education in Peru: 2007-2020
Barbara Bruns et al.
April 11, 2023
This paper focuses on the content and implementation of reforms to raise teacher quality in Peru in the period 2007-2020 in the hope that other countries facing the same challenges can benefit from this experience. We conclude with reflections on how education policy and education politics have cont...
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Seven Lessons on Systemic Education Reform from a Former Minister of Education
Barbara Bruns
April 11, 2023
It is now 10 years since Jaime Saavedra became the education minister of Peru and 7 years since he left that position. This blog summarizes key insights from a new paper with former Minister Saavedra—reflections on what Peru has achieved in education over the past 15 years, what else might have been...
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The Future of Peru’s Rural Children at Risk
Barbara Bruns
January 13, 2022
A massive leak that disrupted Peru’s national teacher selection test threatens the country’s impressive improvements in learning.  Over the eight years prior to the pandemic, the most respected international tests show that Peru made more progress in education than any other country in Latin...
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Comments on World Bank Global Platform to Strengthen Education Financing
Barbara Bruns
November 18, 2019
Last week, the World Bank began a new initiative to tackle education financing challenges. Below are CGD Visiting Fellow Barbara Bruns' prepared remarks at the Global Platform for Education Finance launch.
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For Better Learning, Africa Needs Better Data
Barbara Bruns
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Maryam Akmal
September 12, 2019
Which African country is making the most progress in teaching kids to read by the time they reach third grade? Which language-of-instruction policies are most effective in early literacy teaching? Which country is getting the most children to complete primary school equipped with basic literacy, num...
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The Political Economy of Testing in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa
Barbara Bruns et al.
September 12, 2019
Most countries in sub-Saharan Africa have not implemented testing of children’s learning that can be benchmarked regionally or globally, in contrast to almost all countries in Latin America. Our analysis of the political economy of cross-national learning measurement in Latin America suggests ...
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What Makes a Politician Tackle Education?
Barbara Bruns
May 07, 2019
Josef Ritzen, the Netherlands’ education minister for eight years before he joined the World Bank, once told me: “The view of a prime minister is that an education minister only brings problems. There’s nothing he or she can do to improve quality that has a political upside. So, mo...
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Book Launch: The Politics of Education in Developing Countries
Alexis Le Nestour
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Barbara Bruns
April 11, 2019
CGD in the News
'Teach' tool not for evaluating teachers, says World Bank education boss (Devex)
Barbara Bruns
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February 27, 2019
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In Bringing a Literacy Project to Scale, has Kenya Found a Holy Grail?
Barbara Bruns
October 26, 2018
An article of faith among development economists is that “evidence-based policy” holds the promise of faster progress. Barbara Bruns set out to find a rigorously evaluated pilot whose evidence had led to a program at scale. It wasn’t easy.

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