literacy

Despite decades of success in expanding school enrolment, global education systems have failed to deliver real learning. Solving the learning crisis requires deep, home-grown system reform that focuses on improving learning itself rather than inputs, access, or short-term interventions.

Millions of children in low- and middle-income countries attend school without learning to read, with ineffective teaching methods driving a global learning crisis. New global evidence demonstrates that structured, low-cost, and evidence-based reading instruction can transform literacy outcomes and unlock long-term economic growth.

Engaged communities of parents are a potential nonscarce resource to promote the success of education programmes at scale

Even interventions with large average benefits do not help everyone, which is a serious challenge for education policy in developing countries

Digging below aggregate statistics highlights the significant inequalities in social mobility in Africa despite rising educational levels

Investment, enrolment and achievement in primary education in India lag the rest of Asia and Latin America – a crisis 150 years in the making