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Save the Date (and the Data!): Stay Tuned for the SDG 4 Data Digest 2018

If you want to view the most complete data landscape on learning outcomes, the SDG 4 Data Digest 2018 is your go-to source. With launch events planned next week at the Global Education Meeting in...
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26/11/2018
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Convening for Consensus on SDG 4 Data

As any statistician will tell you, gathering data is only half the battle. If data are to make a difference, they have to have power. For that, they need to be backed by political will, with a firm...
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14/11/2018
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We Are Ready to Start Monitoring Early-grade Learning

Young learners have moved up the data agenda for Sustainable Development Goal 4! The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and its partners have been pushing to upgrade SDG 4 Indicator 4.1.1a on...
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09/11/2018
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In Search of Common Ground for Learning Indicators – From Local to Global

For 10 consecutive days in October, I travelled across Hamburg, Karachi, Islamabad, Muzzafarabad (AJK), Rahim Yar Khan, Bahawalpur, Multan, Muzzaffargarh and Lahore. The purposes of my travel...
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05/11/2018
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How Civil Society Can Supply Rigorous Data for the SDGs: The Citizen-Led Assessment Approach

When the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were drafted in 2015, there was broad agreement that the new global goals needed to evolve from measuring increased access, investment in infrastructure...
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26/10/2018
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Educational Prosperity: Looking Beyond Equality to Equity

The educational prosperity framework that I introduced in a recent blog provides an essential structure for understanding the holistic and cumulative ways that children develop, learn and thrive. The...
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09/10/2018
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The Educational Prosperity Framework: Helping Countries Provide Foundational Learning for All

On World Teachers Day, this blog presents an assessment framework, called Education Prosperity, that can be used to track the success of teachers, families, communities and public institutions in...
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05/10/2018
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New Data Reveal that Poor Youth Are Among the Most Vulnerable to Bullying

Almost one-third of young teens worldwide have recently experienced bullying, according to data published for the first time by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). The data are part of a major...
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01/10/2018
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