Challenges and Solutions: Scaling Tutoring Programs

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The authors partnered with school districts, tutoring providers, and quarterback organizations that support implementation of high-impact tutoring across districts in the United States to learn from their efforts in implementing tutoring. This cross-district implementation study shares a snapshot of lessons learned about common barriers to implementing highly-effective programs and the ways that districts have overcome these barriers with success.

Challenges and Solutions: Scaling Tutoring Programs

Submitted by SPH DIGITAL on

The authors partnered with school districts, tutoring providers, and quarterback organizations that support implementation of high-impact tutoring across districts in the United States to learn from their efforts in implementing tutoring. This cross-district implementation study shares a snapshot of lessons learned about common barriers to implementing highly-effective programs and the ways that districts have overcome these barriers with success.

Opportunities and Challenges for EMIS Implementation in the Caribbean

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This report aims to identify relative strengths and weaknesses in Education Management Information Systems (EMIS) across the Caribbean region, as well as recommendations for improvement, by collating findings from analysis of EMIS implementation in three countries -Barbados (2022), Jamaica (2019), and Suriname (2019-20)- and a description of the Guyana EMIS.

Gaps in secondary education: the dual challenge for indigenous women and girls

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Equality, yes, but…

Promoting gender equality is necessary but not enough. Achieving gender equality is a key target for women to have equal opportunities to achieve their full development in all areas of life. However, in multiethnic societies, a unidimensional conception of this objective may not be enough to close the gaps that affect women in our region. This is the case of the inequalities affecting indigenous women.

Tips and tricks for expressing and storing breastmilk 

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From the moment of birth, a mother’s milk is the best possible food for babies. Breastfeeding is a vital way to ensure babies’ survival, health, and optimal development, providing them with the nutrients they need to grow. It’s not just food that is shared—breastfeeding also fosters a unique bond between mother and child that transcends the physical and strengthens the emotional well-being of both.  

Humans versus Chatbots: Scaling-up behavioral interventions to reduce teacher shortages

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Empirical results in economics often stem from success in controlled experimental settings, but often fail when scaled up. This study presents a behavioral intervention and a scalable equivalent aimed at reducing teacher shortages by motivating high school students to pursue an education degree. The intervention was delivered through WhatsApp chats by trained human promoters (humans arm) and rule-based Chatbots programmed to closely replicate the humans program (bots arm).

Africa and Asia Successful Global Tutoring Experiences: ConnectEd

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This brief describes the evidence of phone-based tutoring interventions in randomized trials in Botswana, and replicated and tested in Kenya, Nepal, India, the Philippines and Uganda. The intervention tested, aimed at strengthening children's foundational numeracy skills and called ConnectEd, improved learning by an average of 0.30-0.35 standard deviations across all testing sites, showing that the effectiveness of phone-based tutorial can scale across contexts.

Africa and Asia Successful Global Tutoring Experiences: ConnectEd

Submitted by SPH DIGITAL on

This brief describes the evidence of phone-based tutoring interventions in randomized trials in Botswana, and replicated and tested in Kenya, Nepal, India, the Philippines and Uganda. The intervention tested, aimed at strengthening children's foundational numeracy skills and called ConnectEd, improved learning by an average of 0.30-0.35 standard deviations across all testing sites, showing that the effectiveness of phone-based tutorial can scale across contexts.

Education and climate change: how to develop skills for climate action at school age?

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This note identifies the challenges that climate change imposes on education systems, including how ready students are to cope with climate change, the level of resilience of education systems, and climate sustainability strategies in the provision of education services. It continues with a conceptual framework on the value education adds to the climate change agenda.

Toward the Future of Healthcare Workers: upcoming trends and challenges

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In Latin America and the Caribbean, the decisive factors for the future health workforce are manifold. The health workforce is the backbone of healthcare, with the common goal of improving the health of individuals and populations, but its characteristics, competencies and functions are evolving gradually. In attempting to predict the attributes and roles of the health workforce in the future, it is essential to examine social, occupational, cultural and technological contexts and trends, including those related to health, education and the environment.