Successful education reforms require good policy design, strong political commitment, and effective implementation capacity. This is extremely challenging. Weak management capacity at all levels of education...
A teacher’s responsibility is not simply to teach. Teachers must help students acquire the competencies to problem solve, analyze, focus on difficult tasks, think creatively, communicate, and work with...
A skilled workforce is crucial to countries’ economic transformation. It enables firms to move up the value chain, adapt to economic changes, and adopt and spur innovation, while allowing workers to move...
Education systems need a broad range of high-quality data to monitor and promote student progress and to understand the links between inputs, policies, practices, and learning. From basic information on...
Countries need strong education systems that promote learning, life skills, and social cohesion. However, systems struggle to deliver education services in adverse contexts such as armed conflict, natural...
People with a quality post-secondary education are more employable, earn higher wages, and cope better with economic shocks. Higher education benefits both individuals and society. Economic returns for...
Ensuring girls can go to school and complete their education is critical for improving lives. Girls who benefit from a quality education become healthier, more productive adults. They’re less likely to...
Technology is already playing a crucial role in providing support to teachers, students, and the learning process more broadly. In a field that is developing at dizzying speeds, new solutions to educational...
A teacher’s responsibility is not simply to teach. Teachers must help students acquire the competencies to problem solve, analyze, focus on difficult tasks, think creatively, communicate, and work with...
Children with disabilities are often the most marginalized and excluded from educational opportunities, limiting their opportunities to build independent lives free from poverty. Fifteen percent of the...
Early childhood experiences have a profound impact on brain development, affecting learning, health, behavior, and ultimately, lifetime opportunities. Yet millions of young children are not reaching their...
National ICT/education agencies (and their functional equivalents) play important roles in the implementation and oversight of large scale initiatives related to the use of information and communication...
This paper presents the findings of an impact evaluation designed to study an educational initiative called Evoke: Youth as Agents of Change in the Colombian Peace Process. Evoke is a project-based learning...
National educational technology agencies ('ICT/education agencies', and their functional equivalents) play important roles in the implementation and oversight of large scale initiatives related to the...
The aim of this report is to provide guidance to governments, institutions, and development partners on how to approach the provision of advanced information and communication technology (ICT) services...
Despite many initiatives that were introduced beginning in 1990, Uruguay had had trouble implementing a national policy to introduce ICT in schools, especially in primary education. However, in 2006, a...
The aim of this report is to provide guidance to governments, institutions, and development partners on how to approach the provision of advanced information and communication technology (ICT) services...
Malaysia, like many countries in the region, has invested heavily in the use of ICT in schools since 1999. Unlike many other countries, Malaysia does not rely on a single specialized agency or a particular...
Information and communications technologies (ICTs) are developing fast and triggering fundamental changes in education system. This case study focuses on institution building, which can manage such a fundamental...