A new report sponsored by the U.K. government, USAID, UNICEF, and the World Bank has ranked supporting teachers through lesson plans and teaching students according to ability, rather than age, as two of the most cost-effective “great buys” for education policymakers.
Presented during an online event on Wednesday, the 2023 Cost-Effective Approaches to Improve Global Learning report from the Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel, or GEEAP, aims to synthesize the latest evidence on cost-effective interventions for improving learning for children in low- and middle-income countries.
It comes as many countries face a “learning crisis,” that the World Bank estimates has left up to 90% of 10-year-olds in some parts of Africa unable to read or understand a simple sentence.
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Sophie Edwards
Sophie Edwards is a Devex Contributing Reporter covering global education, water and sanitation, and innovative financing, along with other topics. She has previously worked for NGOs, and the World Bank, and spent a number of years as a journalist for a regional newspaper in the U.K. She has a master's degree from the Institute of Development Studies and a bachelor's from Cambridge University.
