Education Plus Development

Cincinnati Public Schools Superintendant and CEO, Iranetta Rayborn Wright tours Aiken High School on the first day of school on Thursday August 18, 2022. Wright walked around, greeting students and staff and taking selfies with them.

Greater Cincinnati’s community learning centers lead place-based learning and holistic neighborhood development

Jennifer Kotting · Tuesday, November 22, 2022

As Americans head to the polls to vote in the 2022 Midterm Elections, the early voters trickle in during the morning hours at Lyles-Crouch Traditional Academy in Alexandria, Virginia, Tuesday, November 8, 2022. Credit: Rod Lamkey / CNP/Sipa USANo Use Germany.

Let’s educate tomorrow’s voters: Democracy depends on it

Elias Blinkoff, Molly Scott, and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Monday, November 21, 2022

Kids walking to school

10 recommendations for superintendents to transform education systems into community school districts

Reuben Jacobson

Thursday, November 10, 2022

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An obituary for education—or not?

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Jennifer M. Zosh, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Elias Blinkoff, and Molly Scott

Tuesday, November 8, 2022

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The dynamism of teaching and learning in community schools

Monday, October 24, 2022

refugee children studying

The urgency of transforming refugee education: 4 opportunities to enable inclusion

Maysa Jalbout and Katy Bullard

Tuesday, October 18, 2022

UNGA brookings event

Toward equitable, quality education for all: The importance of recognizing learning and skills

Allyson Parco, Rohan Carter-Rau, and Annelies Goger

Monday, October 17, 2022

Girl reading book while sitting by shelf in library

Reading with a caregiver trumps reading an e-book alone

Amanda Delgado, Alexus G. Ramirez, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

A classroom celebrates World Teachers' Day while doing a chemistry experiment.

Teachers can change the world: Scaling quality teacher professional development

Brad Olsen and Molly Curtiss Wyss

Tuesday, October 4, 2022

student writing on chalk board

Early-grade learning assessments spur Sierra Leone to strengthen foundational literacy and numeracy skills

Monday, September 26, 2022

Girls in Afghanistan walk to school in a remote village.

Transforming education in a time of uncertainty: Insights on Afghanistan

Ghulam Omar Qargha, Rangina Hamidi, and Iveta Silova

Friday, September 16, 2022

Students study around a big globe.

The next decade of education transformation: 5 reports to spur debate and discussion

Rebecca Winthrop

Thursday, September 15, 2022

A Sudanese teacher reads to children at an Islamic school in the Abushock camp for displaced people in northern Darfur region of Sudan, August 16, 2004. The United Nations says 50,000 people have been killed and a million displaced since fighting broke out in Darfur between the Sudan government and two rebel groups in early 2003, sparking what has been called the world's worst humanitarian disaster. REUTERS/Antony Njuguna AN/acm

What global education systems can teach us about transforming education for holistic student development

Amanda Datnow, Vicki Park, Donald J. Peurach, and James P. Spillane

Tuesday, September 13, 2022

CIRCA 2009 Niger, Niamey, Portrait of an african muslim schoolgirl with a blue scarf covering her hair, and holding her hand before her mouth.

‘Schooling’ isn’t enough: The urgency of quality education for children forcibly on the move in the Sahel

Friday, September 9, 2022

A Pakistani girl studies in the classroom.

How do we ensure that schools in Pakistan engage the most excluded children in quality education?

Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Contributors

Rebecca Winthrop

Director - Center for Universal Education

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

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Esther Care

Former Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Universal Education

Emily Gustafsson-Wright

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Universal Education

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Universal Education

Stanley and Debra Lefkowitz Faculty Fellow, Department of Psychology, Temple University

Jenny Perlman Robinson

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Universal Education

Christina Kwauk

Former Brookings Expert

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Emiliana Vegas

Former Co-Director - Center for Universal Education

Former Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

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