Colours of Bihar: Old and New
Crossing the Kosi Mahasetu is an experience. The highway leading to the newly constructed...
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From Invisible to Visible: Being Able To “See” the Crisis in Learning
The group of mothers sitting in the sun in a village in north India was happy to chat. We...
Work In Progress: More on learning to improve learning
Last month, my colleague Dana Schmidt wrote a blog post about what the Hewlett Foundation and...
Annual Status of Education Report delivered a shock to the Indian education system
Every year since 2006, the findings of the Annual Status of Education Report have delivered a...
One Morning in a School in Assam
Some years ago, early one morning I went to a school in Kamrup district in Assam. The school...
Lead the Change Series: Q&A with Sara Ruto, Director Uwezo East Africa
The theme of the 2014 American Educational Research Association Conference is “The Power of...
Challenges to Primary Education
In many states across India, children have just moved into a new class. The excitement of a...
Teach the parent, Help the kids
A new report demonstrates the connection between maternal and child education, finding that...
Schooling is not Education
For the last ten years, the major focus of the global education community has been on getting...
Civil Society Support from the Global South for an Equitable Learning Agenda
Following the final meeting of the U.N. secretary general’s High-Level Panel (HLP) of Eminent...
Quiet Progress for Education in Pakistan
The issue of education in Pakistan rocketed to front page news after the shooting of Malala...
The Learning Metrics Task Force Proposes Six Areas of Measurement for Global Tracking Post-2015
From Kenya to India to the United States, world leaders are realizing the global learning...