Education is the foundation of success, both for individuals and societies. Increasing literacy, numeracy and other key skills in low- and middle-income countries is urgent. Progress on getting children into school is not enough: many are in school, but are not learning. This learning crisis demands urgent action, and we are responding.
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Implementation Matters: Generalising Treatment Effects in Education
Targeted instruction is one of the most effective educational interventions in low- and middle-income countries, yet reported impacts vary by an order of magnitude. We study this variation and use the results to inform a new randomised trial.
Noam AngristRachael Meager -
Deliberate disrupters: Can delivery approaches deliver better education outcomes?
Read the DeliverEd project's final report Deliberate disrupters.
Abril IbarraNeelofar JavaidBruce Ross-Larson -
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Command and can’t control: an evaluation of centralised accountability in the public sector
High-frequency granular data can enable senior government officials to hold poorly performing members of the service delivery chain to account; however, centralised management must translate large volumes of data into appropriate management actions to be effective.
Saad GulzarJuan Felipe LadinoMuhammad Zia MehmoodDaniel Rogger -
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A case study of the Sierra Leone delivery unit
This note on policy delivery in Sierra Leone is one of a series of research products that are being produced as part of the DeliverEd Initiative. This note is based on a qualitative analysis of a small number of semi-structured interviews with government officials and partner organizations working with the delivery unit.
Kate AndersonAbril IbarraNeelofar Javaid -
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DeliverEd report: A Global Mapping of Delivery Approaches
Dana QaroutLiah Yecalo-Tecle Martin WilliamsVeronika DvorakovaZahra MansoorKate AndersonCeleste Carano -
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New evidence on trajectories in a low-income setting
Natalie BauJishnu DasAndres Yi Chang -
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The myth of teacher shortage in India
Sandip DattaGeeta Kingdon -
Understanding achievement in numeracy among primary school children in Ethiopia: evidence from RISE Ethiopia study
Dawit Tibebu TirunehJohn HoddinottCaine RollestonRicardo SabatesTassew Woldehanna -
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Researching socio-emotional learning, mental health and wellbeing: methodological issues in low-income contexts
Stephen BayleyDarge Wole MesheshaLouise YorkePaul RamchandaniPauline Rose -
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The importance of students’ socio-emotional learning, mental health, and wellbeing in the time of COVID-19
Louise YorkePauline RoseStephen BayleyDarge Wole MesheshaPaul Ramchandani -
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What do local government education managers do to boost learning outcomes?
Jacobus CilliersEric DunfordJames Habyarimana -
Personnel management and school productivity: evidence from India
Renata LemosKarthik MuralidharanDaniela Scur -
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Inequalities in learning in Vietnam: teachers’ beliefs about and classroom practices for ethnic minorities
Joan DeJaeghereVu DaoBich-Hang DuongPhuong Minh Luong -
Promoting parental involvement in schools: evidence from two randomized experiments
Felipe Barrera-OsorioPaul GertlerNozomi NakajimaHarry Patrinos -
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The challenge of delivering for learning
Kate AndersonCeleste Carano -
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Can virtual replace in-person coaching? Experimental evidence on teacher professional development and student learning
Jacobus CilliersBrahm FleischJaneli KotzéNompumelelo MohohlwaneStephen TaylorTshegofatso Thulare -
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A sector hanging in the balance: early childhood development and lockdown in South Africa
Gabrielle WillsJaneli KotzéJesal Kika-Mistry -
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System constraints facing teacher professional development in a middle-income country: Indonesia's experience over four decades
Shintia RevinaRezanti Putri PramanaRizki FillailiDaniel Suryadarma -
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Stemming learning loss during the pandemic: a rapid randomised trial of a low-tech intervention in Botswana
Noam AngristPeter BergmanCaton BrewsterMoitshepi Matsheng -
Education during the COVID-19 crisis
Raluca DavidToby PhillipsArnaldo PelliniKaty Jordan -
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How to improve teaching practice? Experimental comparison of centralized training and in-classroom coaching
Jacobus CilliersBrahm FleischCas PrinslooStephen Taylor -
Upping the ante: The equilibrium effects of unconditional grants to private schools
Tahir AndrabiJishnu DasAsim I. KhwajaSelcuk OzyurtNiharika Singh -
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The Politics of Transforming Education In Ecuador: Confrontation and Continuity, 2006-17
Ben Ross Schneider, Pablo Cevallos Estarellas, Barbara Bruns -
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08May08 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
The role of university in an era of democratic backsliding
Join Margaret Levi, Professor Emerita of Political Science and Senior Fellow at Stanford University, for a conversation with Maya Tudor, Professor of Politics and Public Policy, as they explore the role of university in the current political and economic climate.
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29Apr29 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Seeing the future through fiction and policy
Join Dr Aaron Maniam and Professor Tom Hale in conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson as they explore his creative approaches and how he engages policymakers to create a world better led, served and governed.