Please everyone do spread this message: great opportunity to work with us in the DBE over the next few years:

Work Opportunity: Molteno is hiring a Quality Assurance Manager for an Early Grade Reading Programme being done in collaboration with DBE: we.tl/t-L0TIc7o3n0

Structured pedagogy how-to guide webinar Thursday 9 AM EST, 5 PM EAT. What do we know about implementing effective literacy and numeracy programs Including A1kazmi OBE USAID Education World Bank Education Stephen Taylor RTI International Development rtiorg.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

We are hiring two Assistant Directors within DBE Research, Monitoring and Evaluation. Please see the adverts and spread the word to anyone potentially interested and suitable: dpsa.gov.za/dpsa2g/documen…

How research findings are showing the way to improving reading skills in the early grades in SA #education #evidenceimpact 3ie Mpumi Mohohlwane Janeli Kotzé Stephen Taylor bit.ly/earlygrade

Turning to education, Mpumi Mohohlwane presents the #NIDSCRAMWave3 findings based on her work with Dr Debs 🇵🇸 and Stephen Taylor. Link to full paper here: cramsurvey.org/wp-content/upl…

Some highlights from our paper 1. Average weekly attendance increased to pre-lockdown levels, from 37% in July to 95% across all grades by November across all grades and provinces.

Our piece in the Financial Mail based on latest NIDS-CRAM survey analysis I did with Mpumi Mohohlwane and Dr Debs 🇵🇸: Keeping schools open: Covid lessons learnt businesslive.co.za/fm/features/co… via BusinessLIVE

We (DBE) recently updated our repository of research about COVID-19 and children/schooling. Its not comprehensive but hopefully provide a useful list of local South African and international research to get you going: education.gov.za/Portals/0/Docu… Dep. Basic Education

*NIDS-CRAM WAVE 4* These are the 12 NIDS-CRAM Wave 4 Working Papers we'll be releasing at our 12 May 10am WEBINAR LAUNCH. To join us register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

All 12 NIDS-CRAM Wave 4 Working Papers are now available on our website: cramsurvey.org/reports/ and the W4 Synthesis Report is available here: cramsurvey.org/wp-content/upl…

This is our paper. Great collaboration with my co-authors Dr Debs 🇵🇸 Stephen Taylor Janeli Kotzé. The paper is accessible here: cramsurvey.org/reports/#wave-4

In São Paulo, Brazil: "Dropout risk increased by 365% under remote learning." "Average standardized test scores decreased by 0.32 standard deviation, as if students had only learned 27.5% of the in-person equivalent under remote learning." researchsquare.com/article/rs-568…

Really enjoyed and learned from this piece by my sister, Helen Taylor: South Africa's Constitutional Court: the case for judicial dissent, and the caveats theconversation.com/south-africas-… via The Conversation Africa

New paper from South Africa provides hard data, on learning losses, building on earlier simulations. Key to estimating learning loss is capturing deterioration in learning + the "opportunity cost" of forgone learning. cc: Ardington Wills Janeli Kotzé sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Enjoying the RTI International How-To Guides being developed for the Science of Teaching Project, now with new guides on Assessment-Informed Instruction: …ofteaching.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/index.html#/le… Good lessons at the classroom level and system level.

A Nobel Prize for the Credibility Revolution--David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens. My writeup at Marginal Revolution marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

Lant Pritchett's 3 steps to achieve quality education for all: 1) Commit to foundational learning 2) Measure it - "what you don't measure doesn't get done" 3) Align the education system around learning goals - "learning for all requires all for learning" ft.com/content/5540d2…

Here is a new paper coauthored with Martin Gustafsson in which we use both historical and statistical analysis to explain WHY South Africa's reading outcomes improved between 2011 and 2016 (and yes, they have improved though still low & unequal): ekon.sun.ac.za/wpapers/2022/w…