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As school meal programmes continue to expand globally, so too is the body of evidence from impact evaluations. Given the multiplicity of objectives and the diversity of contexts in which school meals programmes are implemented, there is still a need for more rigorous evidence on the impacts of schoo...

Without a teacher at the front of the classroom, no learning can take place. But all over the world, teachers are leaving the profession in droves. There are a variety of reasons for this—from low pay to political instability. High levels of teacher attrition not only strain education systems, becau...

Even when students are in school, they often miss opportunities to learn due to a lack of teacher time on task (i.e., the time teachers spend actively engaged in teaching). We have clear evidence that boosting the quality of pedagogy can boost student learning outcomes, but we also have evidence tha...

As Lao Tsu put it a couple of thousand years ago, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” One of those single steps in the journey towards a quality education—the goal of the fourth Sustainable Development Goal—is children simply attending school. While attending school regularly ...

We are often asked whether teacher professional development “works.” But it’s an impossible question to answer because we call so many different things teacher professional development. Some of these things—like coaching in South Africa and Peru, assessment-informed instruction in Liberia, or traini...

Far too many adolescent girls experience violence, both in school and out of school. Last year, we published analysis—drawing on household survey data representing more than 80 percent of girls aged 15-19 across sub-Saharan Africa—which showed that more than one in four girls report having experienc...

Why do so few studies measure maternal mental health in the context of ECD interventions? First, researchers focused on early childhood may not have a familiarity with the best instruments for measuring maternal mental health. Second, studies focused on ECD may have so much of their limited survey t...