By Wendy Kopp & Radha Ruparell What would you want for your child: a classroom where they feel unsafe, unsure, and unfulfilled, or one where they feel light, loved, and inspired to live fully? Who would you rather have teaching your child: a teacher who is tired, stressed, and on…

I began this journey when I was 21, driven by the idea that we should channel the energy of a diverse group of society’s most promising leaders into working with marginalized communities towards ensuring that all children have the education and the opportunity to fulfill their potential. Through this journey…

As many schools in the Northern Hemisphere reopen for a new school year, while anticipating ongoing disruptions given the coronavirus and its variants, many in the Global South remain closed due to lack of access to vaccines. What unites us, however, is worry about the lasting effects of this pandemic…

EdTech — education technology — has been the “next big thing” in education for more than a decade. As technology has developed and been leveraged in other sectors, many have been waiting for the moment when it would revolutionize education, disrupting the traditional modes of teaching and learning which have…

The following is an excerpt from an article published as part of the World Economic Forum’s Davos Agenda on January 29, 2021. Read the full article here. It is high time for international development actors to shift their approach from defining problems and identifying interventions towards developing the agency and leadership of people in developing contexts. Such a change enables affected communities to define their own problems, identify solutions and continuously improve over time.

The pandemic that has disrupted our world and exacerbated its inequities threatens to hold back a generation of young people — young people who, in most cases, we were already failing to equip to navigate an uncertain future. If we make it a priority to learn from the incredible leadership and innovations that have kept many of the most vulnerable children learning during the pandemic, we can ensure today’s young people do not become a left-behind generation.

With 90% of the world’s children having been out of school during this pandemic, what are we discovering about remote learning? Will schools ever be the same? How should we use what we’re learning to reopen schools better? Is online learning the key to educational transformation? …

COVID-19 school closures have affected 90 percent of students around the globe. That’s more than 1.5 billion children and young people. Never before have so many learners been out of school for so long and all at the same time. For children in the world’s most marginalized communities, this is…

Across Edgecombe County, North Carolina, an area of 52,000 people about an hour east of Raleigh, community members have been considering this question: What do we want to be true for our students by the time they’re 25? I know about this endeavor because it involves a married couple, Dan…