Lee Crawfurd
Center for Global Development
Blog
1. The World Education Forum happened in May in Incheon, South Korea.
2. The learning crisis has officially become mainstream, evidenced by a recent piece in the New York Times, featuring our own Justin Sandefur. Jim Kim blogged about it during his Incheon visit. Reflecting back, Amber Gove (Research Director at RTI) reviews the learning crisis through the experience of early grade reading assessments.
3. Private school enrolments in Peru have doubled in six years.
4. In Colombia, a private investment fund is investing in people — making a reality of the idea of human capital contracts which dates back through Milton Friedman and Gary Becker all the way to Adam Smith.
5. The philosophers at the School of Life ask “What’s Education For?"
This blog first appeared on the CGD Website on 29 May 2015
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