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This blog cross-posted with permission from the Center for Global Development's website where it was published first on January 15, 2025. It was authored by Jonathan Stern, Christelle Saintis-Miller and Rachel Jordan. Photo: Kindergarten student in Senegal. (2023) Patricia Esteve for USAID/RELIT Learning at Scale: One year later In October 2023, the Learning at Scale study officially came to a close. The study was designed to investigate factors contributing to successful improvements in...

How can children be engaged in the classroom? And what effect does this have on their learning? When we visited classrooms in Kenya, Ghana, Colombia and Jordan to initially develop the Engage tool, we noticed that teachers – even with the same training, materials, and lesson plans – varied a great deal in how they engaged the children they were teaching. In some classrooms, children were absorbed by the activities – interacting with classmates, thinking critically, and deciding for themselves...

One of the newest Tangerine innovations in progress at RTI is Tangerine:Acuity- a free vision screening application built into the Tangerine platform. The idea behind Tangerine:Acuity is rooted in the belief that early detection of vision issues can drastically improve learning outcomes. Often, children struggling in the classroom due to undiagnosed vision difficulties can go unnoticed, leading to academic challenges that could be easily prevented with timely intervention. Tangerine:Acuity...