Education

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POLICY PAPERS
Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 School Closures: Insights from Frontline Organizations
Maryam Akmal et al.
May 27, 2020
COVID-19 school closures pose significant operational and financial risks to frontline organizations delivering vital education services, including non-governmental organizations, school operators, and other service providers. In this survey, we ask these organizations about the challenges they are ...
POLICY PAPERS
How to Prioritize Early Childhood? A Note on the Recent Experience in Colombia
Mauricio Cárdenas
and
Ana María Cadena
May 27, 2020
This paper assesses Colombia’s recent expansion in comprehensive early childhood care, underscoring the importance of strong high-level political commitment, inter-institutional coordination and stable financing.
Blog Post
Diaries from the Frontline: Distance Learning for Offline Children
Maryam Akmal et al.
May 21, 2020
In the second post in our “Diaries from the Frontline” series, we continue to examine how frontline education organizations are adjusting to the crisis. We examine how TCF and Luminos are supporting distance learning efforts for the students they serve.
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Why the COVID Crisis Is Not Edtech’s Moment in Africa
Lee Crawfurd
May 18, 2020
With schools closed for hundreds of million students around the world, many have hoped that “edtech” can help keep children learning via internet, apps, and mobiles. A new database published by the EdTech Hub shows that though use of edtech products serving African countries has doubled in the last ...
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Diaries from the Frontline: How Education Organizations Are Providing Food and Relief during COVID-19
Rita Perakis et al.
May 14, 2020
“Diaries from the Frontline” is a new blog series that will feature stories from education organizations about what the crisis means for them and the underprivileged communities in which they’re working, as well as the ways that they are helping children to stay engaged in learning or helping famili...
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How Much Will COVID Cut Education Budgets?
David Evans et al.
May 08, 2020
School closures, learning loss, and drop-outs will not be the only effects of COVID-19. School systems run on money. It’s impossible to provide access to schooling without financial resources, and despite occasional claims to the contrary, the best evidence suggests that the quality of educatio...
Blog Post
Five Findings from a New Phone Survey in Senegal
Alexis Le Nestour
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Laura Moscoviz
April 24, 2020
Better data can help us have a better response for COVID, so we piloted a mobile phone survey on 1,000+ respondents in Senegal in partnership with the Centre de Recherche pour le Développement Économique et Social. We published the results of the survey yesterday and we are now publishing some of th...