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Education

CGD's work in this area seeks to better understand the sources of global learning gaps and to identify solutions to help close these gaps.

While primary school enrolment levels have increased dramatically in recent decades, this progress has not been matched by equivalent gains in learning. Millions of children in the developing world leave school without basic literacy and numeracy skills. CGD seeks to better understand what causes this learning gap and to identify policies and ideas to help end the global learning crisis.

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September 7, 2017

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Can a Public-Private Partnership Improve Liberia’s Schools?

Mauricio Romero, Justin Sandefur and Wayne Aaron Sandholtz

February 27, 2017

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Girls’ Schooling and Women’s Literacy: Schooling Targets...

Lant Pritchett and Justin Sandefur

February 5, 2018

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India: Massive Expansion in Schooling, Too Little...

Lant Pritchett

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