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In this note, we highlight five areas that should be a focus for researchers to advance the field of girls’ education. A wealth of evidence finds girls’ education yields a wide range of benefits, for both girls and their families. Despite this, too many girls are still being left behind. We need better data and better strategies to reach those girls.
As many as 70% of 10 year-olds in low- and middle-income economies can’t read and understand a basic text—what we call “learning poverty.” Learning deficits were already large before the pandemic but were deepened as COVID-19 brought education systems around the world to a standstill.
Most schools have already reopened, but returning to the same way of teaching as before the pandemic will not be enough to recover these losses.
Please join us in our London office for a conversation and afternoon tea with Dr. Rukmini Banerji, CEO, Pratham Education Foundation. Rukmini has spent over two decades studying education gaps in India. As a pioneer of ASER – an annual household survey of more than half a million families – Rukmini was one of the first to shed light on and draw attention to low levels of learning in India.
After the successfully wrestling the reputational damaging Buffalo poaching scandal by its officers from Botswana Police and away from prying civilian eyes to prosecute it internally, the Botswana Defense Force (BDF) it has emerged has since decided send the matter for prosecution in the civil courts.