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Blog Post
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 ...
Blog Post
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...
Blog Post
October 02, 2019
A recent report by the Center for Universal Education at Brookings suggests that private school chains may prove to be valuable supplements to public education. But donors looking for scale should think twice before placing all bets on private school chains. The vast majority of ...
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12:30—2:00 PM GMT
September 26, 2019
The first target under Sustainable Development Goal 4 (Education) is for all children to be completing lower secondary school with minimum proficiency by 2030. At present just 4 in 10 children in low-income countries are even completing lower secondary, never mind with relevant learning outcomes. Wh...
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12:30—2:00 PM GMT
September 18, 2019
Gautam Rao will talk about his new research, which examines whether evidence changes the beliefs and actions of policy makers. His findings show that policy makers do update their beliefs and do make different policy decisions when presented with new evidence. This research is particularly fasc...
Blog Post
September 12, 2019
The global education community has been calling on poor countries to increase their spending on education for years now, to little avail. Instead of repeatedly making the case for how important education is, or calling for poliltical will, a smarter approach could be to directly address the politica...
Blog Post
August 13, 2019
Are “sin taxes” regressive? This is a common criticism of proposals to increase taxes on “bads” such as tobacco, alcohol, and sugar. There are a number of reasons not to be too concerned by the answer to this question. But still, we were curious, so we took a look at the data...