By: Shirin Lutfeali, Yasmin Sitabkhan and Wendi Ralaingita //Imagine being a second grade student in a classroom with close to a hundred other children. It’s math class, and the teacher is…
By: Stephanie Simmons Zuilkowski, Florida State University, and Patience Sowa, RTI International //“We were actually taught in the university before going out on teaching practice, but what I saw out…
Over the past 18 months, governments have made in rapidly designing and implementing distance, blended, and remote learning opportunities for students and teachers. Countries deployed a diversity of…
Entering first grade ready to learn takes more than a book and a pencil and the enthusiasm every young child brings to learning. To be better prepared for school, it helps for a child to have…
Blogs, commentaries, and reports on education technology (EdTech) topics so often highlight the “rapidly changing” nature of technology. More often than not, this is framed as a challenge or obstacle…
By Melissa Chiappetta and Benjamin PiperAssessment often gets a bad rap. Education stakeholders worry that teachers are teaching to the test rather than teaching to ensure that students have the…
Imagine you’re the fleet manager for a logistics company. You know the exact destination for each of your trucks, and when they need to make their deliveries. You also know what region of the country…
This commentary was written by Barbara Trudell, Director of SIL Africa Learning & Development, and Peggy Dubeck, Senior Literacy Researcher at RTI International One of the acknowledged benefits…
In high income countries, 9 out of 10 children can read by the age of 10, but in low-income countries 9 out of 10 cannot. This is unacceptable. The reasons for this shockingly low achievement are…
In May 2020, RTI examined early grade reading data from 27 datasets across 8 countries (which we have since updated to 87 datasets from 15 countries). These datasets all…