This presentation was prepared for the Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference held in Washington, D.C. on 10 March, 2015. The presentation looks at teachers and teaching by evaluating education policy in 11 countries in terms of constraints to more effective teaching and policy recommendations.

This presentation discusses a desk study which was designed to advance knowledge of which countries have and have not conducted early grade reading assessments, while also providing information on where literacy issues remain critical and where improvement in underway.

This presentation was presented by Alison Pflepsen and USAID to provide information about a recently developed resource of use to those working to improve reading and learning outcomes. The presentation discusses how to plan for language use in education. It was presented at CIES on March 10, 2015.

This presentation, based on the Impact evaluation of the MobiLiteracy Uganda program, was delivered at the UNESCO Mobile Learning Week conference in Paris. The presentation highlights the evaluation methodology and raises some important conclusions about evaluating mobile learning programs.

This presentation was given at the 2015 Game Change Summit of the United Methodist Church in Nashville, TN. The presentation takes the audience along a journey of 2 different technology initiatives that involve teachers in Samoa and Kenya and share with you some of the pieces we have found, and where we think some are still missing. While there are many more, the presentation focused on each initiative’s main puzzle pieces – the key design elements of education objective, content, technology, training, cost and scale, as well as monitoring and evaluation.