Punjab’s great gamble: Will the huge public-school-outsourcing experiment pay off?
Pakistan just has become the ground zero for one of the world’s largest public school outsourcing experiments.
Author: Ha Yeon Kim
Transforming Pakistan’s Education Future Through Evidence-Based Research
In May 2024, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shehbaz Sharif, declared an ‘Education Emergency’ across Pakistan. This declaration comes at perhaps the most critical juncture in Pakistan’s educational history – with 26 million children out of school and a country ranked as the 8th most vulnerable to the impacts of…
Who holds whom to account when harm is done? Funder accountability and responsibility within the education in emergencies community
This blog was written by Ritesh Shah, University of Auckland (lead author); D. Brent Edwards Jr., University of Hawaii Manoa; S. Garnett Russell, Teachers College Colombia University;...
The road paved with good intentions: Is social and emotional learning (SEL) safe and effective for all children affected by crises?
Over 222 million school-aged children are affected by armed conflicts and crises globally as of 2022. This number is expected to continue to rise due to ongoing crises and disasters. In the reality of the compounding trauma and protracted crises that so many children are living through, we need sustainable…
Measuring the dosage of brief social-emotional learning (SEL) activities in humanitarian settings
This blog was written by Zezhen (Michael) Wu, Hirokazu Yoshikawa and J. Lawrence Aber, Department of Applied Psychology, and Lindsay Brown and Ha Yeon Kim, Global TIES for Children, New...