January 24, 2014
What If 'Grade' Means Nothing? (Part I)
The next few posts on education are a bit unusual, in a good way I hope, but unusual entrants into the blogosphere. As part of the CGD initiative on education in the developing world and the pivot from schooling to learning, we are going to post links to and discussions of some of the new empirical evidence that is emerging. However, the new evidence on learning trajectories--the gains in skills/capabilities/knowledge as students progress through grades--both requires some common background and, to my view, challenges some of the fundamental assumptions about the schooling
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