Bringing the Power of Play to Refugee Children
As part of the WISE Learners’ Voice Program, our team volunteered with Metadrasi and Organization Earth, both of which are organizations in Athens. They are working tirelessly to meet the needs of refugees living in camps and housing accommodation. As volunteers, we were often tasked with engaging the children who constitute approximately half the […]
The Path to Sustainability for Partnership Schools for Liberia
Dramatic learning gains for students in Partnership Schools for Liberia (PSL) suggest that the Liberian Ministry of Education is on the right track with its reform program “Getting to Best.” These learning gains, the equivalent of 60% more learning for PSL overall, and more than an additional year of learning for students in schools operated […]
Learning Disabilities in the Age of Disruption
Most likely you managed to make sense of the title above, with a short corrective hesitation. Give yourself a pat on the back. But for young learners with dyslexia, the confusing mirroring of some letters such as b and d, poses a constant struggle to find meaning, to read fluently, and can often trigger a cascade of behavioral […]
Liberia’s First Successful Steps Toward “Getting to Best”
Students in Liberia lag far behind their peers in the developing world. Their education has been disrupted by more than a decade of civil war, post-conflict stress, and the Ebola health crisis. The international response has provided necessary funding for teacher training and educational resources, but has not been sufficient to realize the children of […]
Maximizing the Contribution of Private Education: Policy and PPPs
The growth of private education in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has sparked robust debate about the private sector’s place as an education provider. In light of this debate, it is important to explore how governments—guardians of their countries’ education systems—can choose to encourage and regulate private sector participation. In what follows we explore the tools governments […]
Rethinking Liberal Arts Education for the Twenty-First Century
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the world was full of confidence about the inevitability of growing forms and processes of globalization—instantaneous communication, flattened economy, massive movement of people—and the resulting need for new forms of education. Intellectual and business leaders talked about how the world as we had known it in the […]
A Multi-Country Study on the Education of Migrant Children
Mobility is an important characteristic of modernity. It is very important for the researchers and practitioners to understand the needs and challenges of migrant children in various contexts. The country reports included in this project describe the nature and circumstances of migrant children population in seven countries: China, Vietnam, Thailand, Japan, Finland, the United Kingdom, […]
Meeting the Needs of Pupils with Autism in Qatar: Moving forward
The first study of its kind in Qatar, this research investigated how to improve autism education through a contextual enquiry and consultation with stakeholders. Given the country’s supportive leadership, a knowledgeable community of parents and specialists, the findings indicate great potential to transform autism education. In moving forward, the priority is to ensure that autistic […]
Inclusive Quality Education for Children with Disabilities
Inclusive quality education is integral to creating societies that are interconnected, based on values of social justice, equity of opportunities and freedom. Across the globe there is growing focus on providing inclusive quality education for all children, including those with disabilities. The Sustainable Development Goals make an explicit commitment to the education of children with […]
Blended Beyond Borders: A scan of blended learning obstacles and opportunities in Brazil, Malaysia and South Africa
Online and blended learning programs represent one of the most profound opportunities to shift industrial-era instructional models to student-centered approaches. Our latest research analyzes whether and how a sample of brick-and-mortar schools in Brazil, Malaysia, and South Africa uses online learning to deliver content in new, more flexible ways. We distributed an online survey to […]