Learning loss. Academic achievement gaps. A lockdown-fueled lost generation. Currently, the most heated discussions of teaching are taking place at the K-12 level. But those in higher ed should also ...

A young girl proudly holds the Iraqi flag in a classroom filled with her peers, symbolizing national pride and unity. (Photo credit: Anmar Qusay – World Bank) Between 2020 and 2023, the World Bank ...

Is pouring money into smaller class sizes the answer to Michigan’s education crisis? Lawmakers seem to think so. They’ve proposed spending hikes as a way to reverse the downward performance trend in ...

Whatever else academic freedom means, at many colleges and universities, it is the right to teach however one wants without regard to learning outcomes. Indeed, at the more selective, better resourced ...

WASHINGTON — A report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine lays out a new vision for high-quality preschool curricula that support equitable early education for all ...

The pandemic’s sweeping shutdown of school buildings led many districts to hastily put up emergency virtual learning services to continue providing lessons to students. For many teachers, students, ...

Almost half a million students—52 percent of them girls—benefited from the improved school operations, learning facilities, and capacities of teachers and school leaders this project yielded. The ...

PHNOM PENH, November 25, 2025 — Cambodia has made notable progress in getting children into school and now urgently needs to improve what happens in classrooms, according to two new World Bank reports ...