Could access to daycare centers influence children's overall development over the years, especially on their school performance? To answer this question, for the first time in the world, a medium-term experimental assessment was conducted of the impacts of a large-scale public daycare provision program.
Within the normal course of a project, data is collected, information is analyzed, and results are interpreted to better understand reality. But there is one more element in the equation that both researchers and field implementers seek as theultimategoal:movingfrom data to decision-making.
Small island states are particularly vulnerable to climate change.In response to this common threat, agreener, resilientand more sustainable economy is a common goalfortheEnglish-speaking Caribbean.Countrieshave pledged tomitigate climate change andincreasethe share of electricity generated from renewable energy sources.While thisresolve is praiseworthy, the tra
Authors: Emma Nälsund-Hadley & Noam Angrist
Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) school systems are enduring a challenge to learning and skill development without precedent. No other region in the world, has lost as many school days.
“Hey Siri, are you capable of loving? Hmmm… Is there anything else I can help you with?” Artificial Intelligence (AI) has undergone enormous advances in recent years. But one simple question is enough to expose the weakness of these incredible machines built to perform tasks that typically required human intelligence.
More and more researchers and policymakers are interested in whether and how a broad array of skills, often summarized as non-cognitive skills, soft skills, life skills, or socio-emotional skills, may benefit individuals in educational settings or in the labor market. A large literature in the U.S.
Richard Wang is the CEO of the global technology education company Coding Dojo.
This blog was written jointly with Virpi Heinonen who is responsible for the cooperation initiatives and projects in the Latin America and the Caribbean at Tampere University of Applied Sciences, Finland. We work closely together with our partners to provide Finnish higher education know-how to the region.