Briefs | 19 July 2017
Weakest Part of Poorly-Performing Educational Systems: An Argument for Focus on “Teaching at the Right Level” and Improved Foundation-Year Performance
n roughly thirty-five to forty countries that are expanding education very quickly, experts have noticed that learning problems originating in the earliest grades are showing as a massive over-enrolment.
Publications | 11 April 2017
Special Issue--Working to improve: seven approaches to quality improvement in education
A collection of articles on Improvement Science, published in a special issue (Volume 25 Issue 1) of the journal "Quality Assurance in Education". Each article describes one of seven improvement methods, presents its history, and gives at least one example of it employed in the education sector.
Presentations | 28 March 2017
The opportunities and challenges of collaborating with government and other partners on the Ethiopia READ program
Presentation delivered at CIES 2017 (Atlanta).
Presentations | 25 March 2017
USAID PRIORITAS Program to Improve the Quality of Basic Education
This presentation describes the USAID/Indonesia PRIORTIAS program (2012-2017), including the development of leveled reading books for 13,000 schools.
Presentations | 19 March 2017
Theory based evaluation in Kenya: Using research to inform national scale implementation
Presentation delivered at CIES 2017 (Atlanta).
Reports | 7 March 2017
Effective Teaching and Education Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Conceptual Study of Effective Teaching and Review of Educational Policies in 11 Sub-Saharan African Countries
This report explores teacher issues and policies in sub-Saharan African countries via three interrelated questions and methods, each of which is discussed in turn.
First, the paper presents the state of issues related to teaching and learning in sub-Saharan African countries.
Reports | 3 March 2017
Information for Education Policy, Planning, Management, and Accountability in West Bank and Gaza: Final Report of Findings of the Data Gap Analysis of the Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education
The purpose of the data gap analysis is to help the Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education to identify ways to improve the integration and utilization of its data systems for policy, planning, and management, as well as reporting and feedback to the public and stakeholders.
Publications | 3 March 2017
International education is a broken field: Can ubuntu education bring solutions?
Article published in the International Review of Education. February 2016, Volume 62, Issue 1, pp 101–111. Published abstract: "Ubuntu is an African philosophy of human kindness; applying it in the Global South would fundamentally alter the design of the education sector.
Literature Reviews and Desk Studies | 7 December 2016
West Bank Case Study Report
The purpose of this case study is to illuminate how and why US Agency for International Development (USAID) education programs in the West Bank and Gaza were able to achieve the lasting impact in basic, higher, and non-formal education despite the considerable political and environmental challenges.
Infographics | 30 November 2016
The Early Grade Reading Assessment: From Design to Dissemination
An infographic describing the key steps and timeline involved in conducting an Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA).