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A clarion call for efficient and sustainable solutions to achieve foundational learning
1 May 2025
Cross-country, Global, General
Global education needs efficient and sustainable solutions to improve learning and to ensure scarce education funds are being used in the most effective way possible. That's why we're calling for contributions to a set of resources for improving efficiency and sustainability in the sector. Read more
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Reaching the marginalised or going to scale? Lessons from the Girls’ Education Challenge
24 April 2025
Malawi, Somalia, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Nepal, Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, Cross-country, Pakistan
This blog explores the potential tensions between achieving scale and reaching the marginalised in education programmes, drawing on evidence from the Girls’ Education Challenge (GEC). Read more
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5 insights from a survey on stakeholders’ evidence needs
22 April 2025
General
This blog highlights five takeaways from the new insight note, ‘Demand-driven evidence to improve foundational learning: insights from a stakeholder survey’, which explores the education topics stakeholders consider most important. Read more
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Addressing the problem of best buys in politics: the political economy of education research
10 April 2025
Kenya
Why do policymakers choose education reforms that aren’t supported by evidence? In Part 2 of our blog series exploring this question, we discuss approaches to address the problem. Read more
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Framing the problem of best buys in politics: the political economy of education research
8 April 2025
Kenya
Why do policymakers choose education reforms that aren’t supported by evidence? This two-part blog series examines the case of 'One Laptop per Child' programme in Kenya. Part 1 frames and explores the problem. Read more
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Government-led reforms: How can we support the ‘missing middle’ to scale reading instruction?
10 March 2025
Evidence translation, General
Clio Dintilhac, Michelle Kaffenberger and Yue-Yi Hwa explore how to support the middle tier of the bureaucracy who are vital for sustaining and scaling effective reading and mathematics practices in the government system. Read more
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Launching the Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in Implementation Science Research blog series: Bridging the gaps
8 March 2025
Implementation science, General
This blog is being published for International Women’s Day to mark the launch of a new series exploring Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) in implementation science research. Read more
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Five ways we can transform global education in 2025
3 February 2025
Global, General
In this blog, Noam Angrist, Academic Director of the What Works Hub for Global Education, Jonathan Kay, Head of Evidence Synthesis at the Education Endowment Foundation, and Samuel Kembou, Global Lead for Learning and Evidence at the Jacobs Foundation, share five key wishes for the coming year. Read more
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Six insights on implementation challenges at scale – and how to fix them
22 January 2025
Cross-country, General
This blog features a selection of snippets from the panel titled ‘Implementation Matters: Where Do Things Break Down at Scale?’, held during the fifth anniversary of Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) Africa Conference on 14-15 November 2024 in Nairobi, Kenya. Read more
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Bridging research, policy, and practice: takeaways from the Community of Practice Workshop
22 November 2024
Cross-country, Evidence use, General
On 24th September 2024, the What Works Hub for Global Education hosted a Community of Practice workshop alongside the Hub’s annual conference. The Community of Practice is a group of over 500 individuals, from more than 100 organisations, committed to improving implementation of foundational learning in low- and middle-income countries. Read more
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