Innovative research on keeping girls in school x.com/WorldBankAfric…

Advice from Karthik Muralidharan for randomized impact evaluations in partnership with government: Skip the baseline but double the endline sample. Read why here: davidevans.blog/2018/06/21/adv… #RISEconf2018

How long it took to reach 50m users: Airlines 64 years Automobiles 62 Telephone 50 Electricity 46 Credit cards 28 TV 22 ATMs 18 Computers 14 Mobile phones 12 Internet 7 Facebook 4 WeChat 1 Pokémon Go 19 days (via Visual Capitalist)

Only watched a tiny segment, but still my favourite comedian at #EdFringe 2018: Al Lubel

When 50 percent of households think a Fanta Orange is more nutritious than an orange fruit, it might be time to up the game on nutrition education. sites.tufts.edu/willmasters/fi… Evidence from #Malawi by Schneider & William A. Masters

This is up there with my favourite Venns. And that’s saying something. by adam

Great article Devex Why education stole the show at the Global Refugee Forum - featuring key pledges from Global Partnership for Education Education Cannot Wait World Bank Education The LEGO Foundation Sesame Workshop EU Civil Protection & Humanitarian Aid 🇪🇺 GermanForeignOffice Save the Children International INEE Global Education Cluster devex.com/news/why-educa…

Govt issues an ‘advisory’ to news channels to desist from airing content that promotes ‘anti national’ feelings. Ironically, it’s Govt promoted ‘pseudo national’ channels that are guilty in dubbing every anti CAA protestor as an ‘anti national’ rioter! Clean up your home first!

This amounts to punishment without due process. The rule of law seems no longer to matter in U.P. The Chief Minister threatened revenge but revenge is not justice. Does he know this?

New WorldBank - UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency report argues that while providing #education to ALL refugee children is a considerable endeavor, the global estimate on “what it would take” is within reach of the international community & host governments. #UNxWorldBank wrld.bg/bjoD50DLfYu

Excited about the launch of the World Bank Education-UNHCR Education paper on the Global Cost of Inclusive Refugee Education! Providing education to ALL refugees is within the reach of the international community and host governments. wrld.bg/bjoD50DLfYu #EducationForAll

As much as 1 year of academic progress has been wiped out in the Global South due to #COVID19 #SchoolClosures. Example of #Ghana shows wider #LearningLoss pattern for millions of disadvantaged children Ricardo Sabates Emma Carter RTI International RTI International Development educ.cam.ac.uk/facultyweb_con…

New report on refugee education by WorldBank : educ/year/refugee costs circa US $ 1051. Over half million #Palestinerefugee children getting stellar education in UNRWA schools at circa US $ 841.50 per kid/year. How cost/quality efficient is this? VERY! documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/159…

Despite a dark and devastating decade of war, Syrian children are striving to build a brighter future. This is how you can help. 👇💙

Kids in DC learned 57% as much math this year compared to the previous year. Yikes.

"New" global poverty numbers. Sort of. World Bank graphic is laudably transparent about how weak our data coverage is. Most recent global number is 2017. South Asia series stops in 2014 after gov't of India deemed its numbers too bad to be true. blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/march…

She is a refugee. She is a coder. She is a student. She is an education advocate. She is #GenerationEquality. She is Nyamam Gai Gatluak and this is her story: unwo.men/53vV50DPlgh #ActForEqual

It's #WorldRefugeeDay. Fluency in the local language is a cornerstone to an effective inclusive refugee #education policy. What are some good practices in helping #refugees learn local languages? blogs.worldbank.org/education/over…