School leadership plays a major role in shaping the quality of education, acting as a strategic lever to foster conducive learning conditions for students. Despite this, the characteristics of…

Nathalie Guilbert, Carolina Alban Conto, Fabricia Devignes, Juan D. Barón |

Our new paper “Free compulsory education can mitigate COVID-19 disruptions’ adverse effects on child schooling” focuses on the role of pre-existing policies, such as free compulsory education laws…

Marco Tiberti, Luca Tiberti, Sylvain Dessy, Horace Gninafon |

The World Development Report 2018 (WDR) focused on how to help every child in the world learn. Schools play many roles in society, but helping children to master fundamental skills is one of their…

David Evans, Susannah Hares |

Nigeria’s problems with infrastructure have created a gap in learning in many students like myself, a global phenomenon further exacerbated by the lack of access to consistent electricity.…

Xara Orji |

We asked high schoolers aged 16 to 19 from around the world to provide their insights on learning after three years of the global pandemic in up to 500 words in English, French, Spanish, or Arabic…

Iona Lee |

The home-learning intervention also had important spillovers on older siblings, where we observed similar learning gains. For adolescents, we also observed a decrease in parenthood —13 percent—…

Victor Orozco, Ericka Rascón Ramírez |

Since 2018, the government of Nigeria has shown strong commitment to improve education outcomes and has been implementing a series of reforms under the label of “EdoBEST,” aiming to improve…

Jaime Saavedra, Martín E. De Simone |

Marginalized youth are often trapped in a perpetual cycle of economic and social despair where poverty and lack of opportunities limit their ability to prosper, especially in settings affected by…

Marcus Holmlund, Nausheen Khan, Emily Crawford |

Adolescent girls in Nigeria face disproportionate obstacles in their lives and, in many cases, see their access to education interrupted. Attacks on schools, mass abductions of students, and…

Aisha Garba, Mansir Nasir |

As climate change diminishes the availability of surface water in Africa, groundwater has emerged as a vital untapped resource. But in the Sahel, a global hotspot for climate change and one of the…

François Bertone, Mariam Sou |