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Lessons from Sesame Street on media representation, racial biases, and voting
Representation in child media matters. Sesame Street’s positive representations of minorities and working women in 1969 had long run impacts on prejudices, influencing people’s propensity to vote for diverse candidates decades later.
What do we know about literacy learning in adulthood?
To be more effective, adult literacy programmes need to incorporate the neuroscience of how adults learn and how this differs from children.
School feeding programmes improved attendance in northern Burkina Faso
A school feeding programme in northern Burkina Faso increased school attendance and girls’ enrolment.
Power, politics, and welfare: The cost of corruption in Indian electricity
Political manipulation in India's electricity sector, involving illicit subsidies to constituents of the ruling party, results in staggering efficiency losses.
