Pre-service education and in-service teacher professional development (collectively termed
teacher professional development or TPD here) can play a pivotal role in raising teaching …

Countries across Africa continue to face major challenges in education. In this review, we
examine 145 recent empirical studies (from 2014 onward) on how to increase access to and …

We model learning losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the potential for cost-effective
strategies to build back better. Data from Early Grade Reading Assessments in Ethiopia …

Scientific literacy is using scientific knowledge to identify questions, acquire new knowledge,
explain scientific phenomena, and draw conclusions based on scientific evidence …

Paralisadas pelo pânico decorrente da pandemia provocada pela Covid-19, o fechamento
das escolas trará consequências para a aprendizagem dos alunos. Este artigo examina …

We experimentally compare two modes of in-service professional development for South
African public primary school teachers. In both modes teachers received the same learning …

Many successful piloted programs fail when scaled up to a national level. In Kenya, which
has a long history of particularly ineffective implementation after successful pilot programs …

This paper demonstrates the acute sensitivity of education program effectiveness to the
choices of inputs and outcome measures, using a randomized evaluation of a mother …

Can schools use the internet to promote reading and learning? We provided Wikipedia
access to randomly-selected students in Malawian boarding secondary schools. Students …

The linguistic interdependence hypothesis (Cummins, 1979, 2000) states that children's
second-language (L2) proficiency is, to some extent, a function of their first-language (L1) …