12 Years of Schooling Can Help End Child Marriage in Pakistan
Last week, I visited a village in the Northern Sindh province of Pakistan. There was much...
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Why we need a reading indicator for lower primary
One often hears that the education community failed 15 years ago to recognise the scale of the...
Universal access to quality education: More and better learning data needed to track #GlobalGoals progress
Monitoring progress on the new Global Goal for access to education will require research to...
Early Assessment of Learning is Critical to Achieving Quality Education Goal
I was born January 1, 1961 to a working class family in a small town in the U.S. Midwest—a New...
Achieving the education SDG: Start early and stay the course
Now the razzmatazz celebrating the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals is over, it is...
From the People’s Action for Learning (PAL) Network to the TAG on SDG 4 Indicators
The purpose of this assessment is to provide timely help. Without foundational skills,...
Education vs. literacy – is digital education the answer to India’s education dilemma?
On 5th September, schools across India celebrated Teachers Day. A day that reveres teachers...
Learning Assessments: Designing the Future
In the past, assessment results in education have been used largely to judge and grade. This...
Toward Universal Literacy, First Step is Measuring
Alongside National Ants on a Log Day, Andorra’s National Day, and Bernie Sanders’ birthday,...
A stepping-stones approach to leaving no one behind in learning
To ensure the rhetoric of leaving no one behind becomes a reality, the sustainable development...
Continuing the Conversation about ‘The Role of Citizen-led Assessments in Shifting the Education Agenda’
In June, we shared findings from an evaluation of citizen-led assessments we commissioned from...
A People’s Global Network on Learning is Born
While Kenya and Nairobi were at a standstill preparing for the US President Barack Obama’s...