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Education researchers should move beyond small, tightly controlled studies and focus much more heavily on how effective programmes can be implemented by governments at scale, according to a new analysis in Science by What Works Hub for Global Education researchers. 

Education systems can use particular type of mobile phone tutoring to maintain and improve children’s learning during major disruptions such as school closures, which affect hundreds of millions of children worldwide, according to a major new study published in Nature by Noam Angrist and colleagues.