Extreme heat is becoming a serious threat for education in Latin America and the Caribbean, especially in communities that have fewer resources to adapt. Join us in these critical discussions in Belém at #COP30Brazil. 📘publications.iadb.org/en/heat-proof-… 📍cloud.mail.iadb.org/COP-30-ENG

Today in Current Affairs, professor Ron Purser exposes how AI's destruction of the university is even worse than you think, and goes well beyond students cheating with ChatGPT: currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-des…

Submit your paper to the Public Economics RIDGE Forum in (checks notes) Barbados 🤩🏖️ ☀️ Deadline Jan 15. Perfect chance to tell your chair this trip is ‘absolutely essential for research.’

Estimados Servicio Nacional de Aduana del Ecuador se comprende los operativos de control. Pero hace falta información, clara, transparente con cantidades y montos. La mayoría de migrantes no somos comerciantes y regresamos a casa por nuestras familias. cc. Daniel Noboa Azin

Green employment is rising across OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives countries, but remains uneven and limited - the average OECD share of green-task jobs is just under 18% of total jobs. Read the 🆕 Green Transition chapter of Environment at a Glance to find out more ➡️ oecd.org/en/publication…

#NewProfilePic 💜💛 Happy New Year #2026

Diseñar escuelas resilientes al calor: una apuesta para garantizar los aprendizajes iadb.org/es/blog/educac…

👉 revistamundodiners.com/literatura/lib… | El ilustrador ecuatoriano Roger Ycaza fue reconocido por la Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York como uno de los mejores autores infantiles en español de 2025. Su libro 'Instante' celebra los momentos efímeros y felices que construyen la vida: burbujas

If you were a Minister of Education for a day, what would you change first? On #EducationDay, youth are recognised as co-creators of education. ➡️ Stay tuned for #GEMReport 2026 Youth Report, Lead with youth, coming out on Jan 23: bit.ly/2026youthreport UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 UN Youth Office

Education is one of the world’s most reliable investments. Every extra year of schooling boosts future earnings by about 10%. Learn how #EducationWorks: wrld.bg/7G7r50Y1oVl #EducationDay

The contribution of human capital to GDP per capita growth is sizable, at around 0.6-0.7 percentage points over the 20 years, according to a recent World Bank study by Arthur Mendes and Steven Pennings. From 2040 to 2100, the contribution of human capital to growth is

😯😯42%

Rising temperatures are increasingly disrupting children’s education. This has serious implications for education systems that do not adapt. Our upcoming webinar covers OECD analysis on the future risks to students as well as potential solutions: meetoecd1.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

📊 Too much global development data still lives in spreadsheets. But modern analysis requires data acquisition as code. Today I’m pleased to share that the unicefdata #Python package is now available on PyPI, providing direct programmatic access to the UNICEF Data Warehouse.

Can test results lead to real education reform? Alexis Le Nestour and Lee Crawfurd show how PASEC results have shaped policy and improved learning in Francophone Africa. At a few cents per child, can countries afford to lose it? Also available in French: cgdev.org/blog/pisa-shoc…

🔎 Are aid agencies paying attention to the evidence? See our new analysis collating detailed information from project documents at the World Bank Education & Skills & FCDO Girls’ Education over the past decade tracking references to “smart buys." A steady increase in mentions in project documents of

As ecological and economic crises reveal the contradictions of our productive model, the idea of degrowth has gained both advocates and critics. Should degrowth be our priority? Can we downscale the economy and avoid the threat of recessionary crisis? buff.ly/H8gotsT

⏰ ¡Mañana! Descubre cómo OpenSPP ayuda a fortalecer programas de protección social con una arquitectura abierta, interoperable y escalable. 📅 23 de abril · 4:00–5:30 p. m. ET 👉 Regístrate aquí: bit.ly/4dYVqyS

"Antes escribía muy mal. Ahora leo más fluido, hago pausa en los puntos". Santino tiene 10 años. Aprendió a leer de verdad cuando alguien leyó con él, lo acompañó y lo ayudó a darle sentido a las historias. En Uruguay, la iniciativa "Comunidades que leen", en la que participa

Muy contento: escribí algunas cositas sobre política educativa y ya está publicado. Tratando de entender qué pasó y, sobre todo, qué no debería volver a pasar.