This issue brief for practitioners offers eight lessons based on the analysis of 18 life skills programs in Africa and Asia—on the design, delivery, measurement, and scale-up of youth life skills programming in low- and middle-income countries.
This issue brief for government officials offers lessons on how to successfully devise, roll out, scale, and strengthen life skills policies for youth in low-and middle-income countries.
This study, in support of the Partnership to Strengthen Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education (PSIPSE), offers action-oriented lessons and policy implications for changemakers committed to building, implementing, and scaling life skills programming.
Enhancing teacher quality is a high priority for the Partnership to Strengthen Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education (PSIPSE)—a collaborative of donors seeking to catalyze improvements in secondary education.
This report presents key findings from a Mathematica study that draws out learnings from the experiences of eight grantees of the Partnership to Strengthen Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education that are implementing teacher training programs to improve secondary education in East Africa and...
This white paper summarizes rigorous evidence on approaches to increasing participation, improving learning, and enhancing the relevance of secondary education in developing countries.
This report summarizes the results of the 2016 monitoring effort conducted by Mathematica for the Partnership to Strengthen Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education (PSIPSE).
This report summarizes the results of the 2016 monitoring effort conducted by Mathematica for the Partnership to Strengthen Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education (PSIPSE).
This brief summarizes learning from early efforts by a working group of philanthropies and other organizations that are trying to establish that their investments in basic science research contribute to advancing knowledge.
The universal education movement has dramatically increased the number of children attending primary school in Africa and Asia.
This fact sheet describes the National Science Foundation’s (NSF’s) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program, which was created in 1987 to strengthen the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce.
This paper describes key drivers of the skills development problem in Latin America and offers recommendations for leveraging policy tools to address the challenge.
This issue brief outlines how MasterCard Scholars program partners define transformative leadership and its core competencies, and it summarizes the leadership training and support services they offer secondary and post-secondary Scholars.
This is the final report of the impact evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Summer Medical and Dental Education Program (SMDEP). SMDEP provides science enrichment opportunities to minority and disadvantaged college students interested in attending medical or dental school.
The Study of School Turnaround examines the improvement process in a purposive sample of 35 case study schools receiving federal funds through the School Improvement Grants (SIG) program over a three-year period (2010–11 to 2012–13 school years).
In this paper, we study this somewhat puzzling difference in outcomes for black transfer students.
The MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program is a secondary and university scholarship and support Program for economically disadvantaged but academically promising youth with a demonstrated commitment to social change.