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The Cross-Over Effect: Education Can Be a Fault Line or the Bedrock for...
What is the relationship between education and geological processes? At first glance, some might think: Not much. One concerns the opening and enlightenment of the mind; the other is as old, rock-solid...
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Food Wars: Battling the Bulge in Schools
In Jishnu Das'Notes From the Field: Playing Chicken in India post, he explored an impact evaluation he was involved in, over a decade ago on India's mid-day meal scheme. Keeping on this topic of school...
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Teachers' Unions: Friend or Foe to Reform?
On Friday, July 23, Michelle Rhee, Chancellor of Washington D.C. Public Schools, dismissed teachers across the city for poor performance. The number of teachers dismissed has yet to be finalized, but...
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Gordon Brown hails education as the best anti-poverty program
Blogging from the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Summit in New York City.This morning, 69 million children would not have gone to school around the world. And of those who did, many did...
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Call for Action: Help Shape Our Work on Equity in Higher Education
Co-authored by Roberta Bassett and Jennifer Pye, Tertiary Education TeamWe are reaching out to the global tertiary education community to create a forum for discussing equity in access and success. For...
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Waiting for School Autonomy
Alternatives to the traditional public school system are actively being sought and radical approaches for expanding school accountability are being widely touted. For example, in the award-winning...
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Global Hunger? School Feeding Offers Double Dividend of Healthier Children...
Co-authored by Lesley Drake, Director of the Partnership for Child DevelopmentAs leaves crackled and autumn closed in on Washington DC at this time last year, the Brookings Institution played host for...
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Education is Fundamental to Development and Growth
Earlier this month, I was invited to be a keynote speaker on the theme of "Education for Economic Success" at the Education World Forum, which brought education ministers and leaders from over 75...
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Can the Private Sector Play a Helpful Role in Education? It Can, If it...
The following piece appeared as a guest blog in the UK's Guardian this past week.A good public education system means public spending – but not necessarily public provision.In OECD countries, more than...
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How can school compete with Social Media?
I just returned from the Education World Forum with its tied-in British Education Technology Trade (BETT) show. This is an annual, London-based conference focusing on the use of technology for...
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Tertiary Education at a Crossroads: Tales from Different Parts of the World
It has been seven months since I joined The World Bank as a Lead Education Specialist coordinating their work on tertiary education. During this short period, I have met with people from across the...
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