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Transforming the Education Workforce
Transforming the Education Workforce: Learning Teams for a Learning Generation offers new visions for strengthening, diversifying, and reimagining an education workforce that can deliver inclusive, quality education for all. The workforce is an education system’s biggest investment and one of its greatest levers for change. This new report draws on existing evidence and innovations from education and other sectors to rethink the education workforce needed for the future. It puts forward approaches for addressing immediate needs while also creating collaborative teams and systems that respond to our rapidly changing world to equip our young people with the skills they need for the future.
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The Education Commission and its partners have produced in-depth research on what works in improving and expanding quality education for all. This research includes a series of background papers that contributed to the analysis and recommendations put forth in the Learning Generation report. These papers will be organized by the transformation they most closely align with.
- A Global Offer for Learning (GOL): Based on Experiences with Paying for Results (2 MB)
- Books for All Children: A Rapid Analysis of the Political Economy around Textbook Publishing (2 MB)
- Information for Accountability: Transparency and Citizen Engagement for Improved Service Delivery in Education Systems (2 MB)
- Learning Data for Better Policy: A Global Agenda (2 MB)
- Managing the Politics of Quality Reforms in Education: Policy Lessons from Global Experience (2 MB)
- Memo on Evidence in Education: Education Systems and Interventions (2 MB)
- The Data Revolution in Education (2 MB)
- The Effectiveness of Education Programs Worldwide: The Construction and Findings of a Meta-Analytic Database (1 MB)
- The Quality of Education Systems and Education Outcomes (2 MB)
- A Landscape Analysis of Information & Communication Technologies’ Role in Education Effectiveness and Efficiency: Issues, Techniques, and Possibilities (2 MB)
- Developing the Education Workforce in Africa: Focusing on the Role of Families/Communities (2 MB)
- Ensuring Mixed Education Systems Comply with Human Rights (2 MB)
- Innovation and Technology to Accelerate Progress in Education (2 MB)
- Leadership Development Guidance Note (1 MB)
- Leapfrogging College: Moving Beyond the Incumbent Model to Achieve Success, Affordability, and Quality in Post-secondary Education (6 MB)
- Measures of Effective Teaching in Developing Countries (2 MB)
- Private Schooling in Latin America: Trends and Public Policies (2 MB)
- Prizes for Innovation: Impact Analysis in the ICT for Education Sector (1 MB)
- Teacher Politics: Meeting Educational Quality Challenges with Teachers (3 MB)
- Tertiary Education and the Sustainable Development Goals: In Search of a Viable Funding Model (5 MB)
- Accelerating Progress in Education in Malawi: A Focus on Financing and Political Economy (2 MB)
- An Education for the Future: the Schooling Experience of Syrian Refugee Children in Lebanon and Germany (2 MB)
- Analysis of Risk Factors in Education in Developing Countries: Technical Report (2 MB)
- Challenges in Post-school Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (2 MB)
- Children and adolescents affected by crises (2 MB)
- Financing Early Childhood Development: An Analysis of International and Domestic Sources in Low- and Middle- Income Countries Volume I (2 MB)
- Financing Early Childhood Development: An Analysis of International and Domestic Sources in Low- and Middle- Income Countries Volume II (2 MB)
- Girls' Schooling is Good, Girls' Schooling with Learning is Better (2 MB)
- India’s Education Policy and Its Development Over Time: How has Social Inequality been addressed? (2 MB)
- Lighting the Way: Inside the School Resilience Agenda (4 MB)
- Migration, Education and Development (1 MB)
- Overcoming Inequalities Within Countries to Achieve Global Convergence in Learning (2 MB)
- Projections of Educational Attainment and Its Development Impacts For Scenarios of Full and Partial Progress Towards Universal Upper Secondary Schooling (2 MB)
- Spending Beyond Education: Supporting Education through Complementary SDG Spending (1 MB)
- Targeted, Multidimensional Approaches to Overcome Inequalities in Secondary Education: Case Study of Camfed in Tanzania (1 MB)
- The Role of Families/Communities in Supporting Girls' Education: A Case Study of Kenya, Malawi, and Zambia (2 MB)
- A Global Financing Facility for Education (GFF-E): What, Why and How (2 MB)
- Domestic Tax and Education (2 MB)
- Education Financing in Decentralized Systems – Enquiries into the Allocative Efficiency of Educational Investment and the Effects on Other Dimensions of Quality Education Policies (3 MB)
- Education Financing Priorities (1 MB)
- Enhancing Multilateral Loans for Education: Intervention Rationales, Mechanisms, Options and Decision Criteria (2 MB)
- Ensuring Effective Outcome-based Financing in Early Childhood Development (2 MB)
- Estimating the Economic Returns of Education from a Health Perspective (2 MB)
- Financing Basic Education in Nigeria: What are the Feasible Options? (2 MB)
- Financing Education Equity: A Study of Three Country Cases (3 MB)
- Financing Education: Domestic Resource Mobilization and Allocation (2 MB)
- Forming the Optimal Skills Pledge and Levy: A Global Perspective and Policy Recommendations (2 MB)
- Global Taxation: Financing Education and the Other Sustainable Development Goals (2 MB)
- Improving Basic Education Outcomes in Nigeria: Effectiveness, Accountability and Equity Issues (2 MB)
- Innovative Financing Recommendations (2 MB)
- Korea’s ODA Strategy in Global Education (2 MB)
- Priorities and Strategies of US-based Funders Supporting Global Education (1 MB)
- Raising Domestic Resources for Equitable Education (2 MB)
- Rethinking the Financing and Architecture of Global Education (3 MB)
- The Learning Generation Costing Model: Semi-technical overview of key assumptions driving the Learning Generation estimates (1 MB)
- Unexpected Allies: Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform and Education Finance (2 MB)
- USE 2030: Exploring Impacts, Costs and Financing (3 MB)