Our Work /
Education
Effective approaches to teaching foundational skills have been around for decades. The problem has never been a lack of evidence about what works in classrooms.
Implementation is where the system consistently breaks down, because funding structures, teacher training and the incentives governing how schools operate have never been designed to carry good ideas reliably from research into daily practice. We want to live in a world where a child's education isn't determined by where they were born, who funds their school, or whether their teacher ever got the support they deserved.
Three critical challenges we’re committed to tackling
Ensuring education can deliver learning
Proven teaching methods like structured pedagogy exist and work, but they rarely survive contact with the systems meant to implement them. We're exploring funding models that reward adaptation not deployment, and training programmes that don't stop at launch, so good ideas don't stall before they can reach the classroom.
Unlocking what technology can do for education
Technology has genuine potential to address the learning crisis at scale, but that potential is going largely unrealised. We're finding ways to make sure that governments and funders have the support structures they need to best use the tools they are procuring, so we can avoid the promise of innovative new approaches remaining out of reach for most children.
Preparing children for the future
Digital and technical skills are increasingly the entry point to economic participation, and access to them remains the preserve of a privileged few. We are finding ways to make sure that children from outside of that group leave education prepared for the economy they are entering.
Featured work
Gender and Learning Evidence Fund
Utilising targeted research grants to identify how best to close evidence gaps between foundational learning, gender norms, and long-term outcomes affecting health and livelihoods.
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uBoraBora
Building a different type of fund to transform literacy and numeracy in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Implementation research at the middle tier
Enabling implementation research at scale through agile grant-giving, demand-led technical assistance and a platform to connect grantees with each other and their evidence.
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