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The Secret Sauce

What should the purpose of good education be?

9 min readNov 8, 2020

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The Secret Sauce

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Was It Worth It?

“Development” takes time.

10 min readSep 1, 2020

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Was It Worth It?

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Early Insights™

Why Early Childhood Education Should Be A Post-COVID Priority for Governments

COVID-19 has dramatically altered the shape and direction of public finances. Needs have gone up and revenues have gone down, leaving…

7 min readSep 1, 2020

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Why Early Childhood Education Should Be A Post-COVID Priority for Governments

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Ability & Clustering

The U.K. exam fiasco this year has sparked a lot more debate than it usually does. It has revealed not just the institutional biases that…

10 min readAug 23, 2020

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Ability & Clustering

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To USE or not to USE?

“USE”. Universal Secondary Education. It’s part of a UN-sanctioned goal (SDG 4.1, which aims for all children to “complete free, equitable…

8 min readAug 18, 2020

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To USE or not to USE?

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Exams & Invisibility

This last week has been incredibly frustrating, upsetting — even depressing.

5 min readAug 17, 2020

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Classification is not destiny.

The end of the year is a useful time to catch up on reading — with lots of time to even reflect on what you read. This December I was…

5 min readFeb 18, 2018

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Why We Invested: Siyavula

“In many countries and communities, learning isn’t happening,” World Bank President Jim Yong Kim notes in the introduction to the new World…

4 min readOct 6, 2017

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Why We Invested: Siyavula

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Patterns & Questions

A lot of people are in shock. Trying to make sense of what just happened. Proposing and testing different “explanations” so that a…

4 min readNov 10, 2016

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Omidyar Network

Why We Invested: SPARK Schools

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” — Socrates

4 min readOct 18, 2016

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Why We Invested: SPARK Schools

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ibanking, globaldev, impinv, phil; ex: @CIFFchild & @OmidyarNetwork ; Board: @UBSOptimus ; adv: various. Posts are personal. Debate is good.

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