As an RTI Fellow within the International Education Division, I work on learning from our efforts to improve education outcomes for children around the world. Much of my work over the last decade has been on the development and deployment of the Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA), a system-level diagnostic for understanding students’ foundation skills in reading. To date EGRA has been used in more than 120 languages and 70 countries to inform policy and improve instruction. My research and policy interests include improvement and measurement of student learning; education finance; conditional cash transfer programs; and factors affecting achievement, enrollment, and attendance.