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April 2023
Dana Schmidt / The Puggle / May 16, 2023
Apparently we missed International SEL Day in March (there’s a day for everything!!) but that’s not going to stop us from focusing our April Puggle on the latest and greatest in research and tools on life skills and social and emotional learning. First up, a group of funders (Porticus, LEGO Foundation, and the Jacobs Foundation) […]
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Dana Schmidt / The Puggle / April 12, 2023
March started out with terrifying reports of schoolgirls in Iran being poisoned by toxic gas — yet another example of threats against girls’ education (which wars of the past have done little to solve). Meanwhile, nearly a quarter of schools in Burkina Faso have been closed due to violence in the region. But this widespread […]
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Aparajitha Suresh / The Puggle / March 13, 2023
In February, researchers in the gender and education space coalesced to identify persisting gaps in our collective knowledge on girls’ education; gaps that, if filled, could significantly advance the girls’ education field as a whole. A common, addressable trend underlies all five gaps: paucity of representative data. Below, we share two straightforward ways to support […]
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Dana Schmidt / The Puggle / February 9, 2023
In honor of the New Year, in this edition of the Puggle we take a look at how we are progressing against our collective resolutions for education — as expressed in the sustainable development goals (SDGs). In January, the UNESCO Institute for Statistics released an interactive SDG 4 Scorecard looking at how countries are doing […]
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Aparajitha Suresh / The Puggle / December 20, 2022
For our final Puggle of the year, we center the voices and hopes of girls themselves to hear what they dream for their future education. May we all continue to help make their wishes come true in the year ahead. As you read the wishes of girls’ below, keep this festive tune in mind to […]
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Dana Schmidt / The Puggle / December 8, 2022
It’s been such a busy two months that you probably didn’t even realize a full two months passed since we posted our last Puggle, right? That’s certainly how we feel! To catch up on lost ground, though, in this post we cover notable news from both October and November. First, a few rapid fire updates […]
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Aparajitha Suresh / The Puggle / October 13, 2022
In the September Puggle, we reflect on the landmark United Nation’s Transforming Education Summit (TES). We celebrate the work of many actors — including you, our readers — for securing collective acknowledgement that education is not a soft topic to be underfunded, or sidelined as has been the practice of the past. We then couple […]
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Dana Schmidt / The Puggle / September 15, 2022
We are gearing up for the Transforming Education Summit at the United Nations. In light of the news that The Pandemic Erased Two Decades of Progress in Math and Reading in the United States, and gloomy predictions about Global Learning Poverty from a few months back, the need for transformation feels dire. This month we […]
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Dana Schmidt / The Puggle / July 29, 2022
In honor of slowing down to rest and rejuvenate, we are keeping the July Puggle short and sweet with just eight links for you — some reflections on the current education environment, policy reactions, rethinking gender norms, and resources you may find useful. Reflections on the current education environment 1. The Economist looks at how […]
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Dana Schmidt / The Puggle / July 14, 2022
June was jam-packed! If you had trouble staying on top of all the education-related news (we certainly did…) this update is for you. We’ll jump right into it. First, we highlight four important publications from June which collectively provide a pretty comprehensive — albeit depressing — synopsis of the state of education right now. Our […]
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