Effective Accelerated Instruction“Before, when the teacher asked me to read, I would cry. Now I raise my hand first!” (Standard 2 girl, Mtwara)In four regions in Tanzania, about 20% of children were…
Learning at Scale: One year laterIn October 2023, the Learning at Scale study officially came to a close. The study was designed to investigate factors contributing to successful…
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,…
This is a collaborative blog by Sarah Kabay, Director of IPA's Education sector program, and Joseph DeStefano, Senior Director, Policy, Systems & Governance at RTI…
At the 68th annual meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), a global network of researchers and practitioners gathered to exchange diverse perspectives on how to improve…
Have you ever experienced a classroom where the teacher seems to do all the talking, they rarely pose open-ended questions, and do not foster active discussions? Some lessons revolve…
By Jonathan Stern, Wendi Ralaingita, Julianne Norman, and Yasmin Sitabkhan Earlier this summer we provided initial insights into what made Numeracy at Scale’s six large-scale early…
Written by Julianne Norman, Jonathan Stern, Yasmin Sitabhkan and Wendi RalaingitaThe Learning at Scale InitiativeImproving learning outcomes at scale has always been difficult, which is why the Bill…
Anyone who has watched a child truly absorbed in what they are doing knows what a powerful driver for learning it can be. When a child is engaged, they go deeper in their learning, are self-motivated…
The Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) was developed in 2006 to be a simple, low-cost, oral assessment of a child’s fundamental reading skills. Since its inception, EGRA has been used in over 70…