Calculating the Educational Impact of COVID-19 (Part III): Where will students be when schools reopen?

  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 contained data for students in consecutive grades (e.g., grades 1 and 2; grades 2 and 3; etc.) and were used as a starting point for us to model the impact of COVID-related school closures on learning loss.

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Action research? Applied research? Research?

In international development cooperation, there is an increasing focus on adaptive management, intentional and resourced learning, and the use of learning to improve activity implementation and impact. Programs are being called on to incorporate operations or action research into their Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) plans.

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On World Teachers’ Day, Samoa Project Offers Lessons for Improving Learning during COVID-19 Pandemic

October 5, 2020 marks World Teachers’ Day and this year, particularly, we want to recognize the immense contributions teachers make in our lives and to our futures. Teachers are among the many unsung heroes of the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, as parents got a glimpse into teachers’ day to day realities when suddenly faced with closed schools and their children at home.

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