Lee CrawfurdThe Global Education Reform Movement (GERM) in 2017: A Year in ReviewIf the Adam Smith Institute can reclaim the pejorative label ‘neoliberal’, maybe we should be reclaiming the pejorative ‘global education…Dec 21, 2017Dec 21, 2017
Lee CrawfurdInnovations in BureaucracyLast week I was at the “World Innovation Summit for Education” (WISE) in Doha, and I don’t think I heard the word “bureaucrat” once…Nov 23, 20171Nov 23, 20171
Lee CrawfurdOpen Data for EducationThere’s a global crisis in learning, and we need to learn more about how to address it. Whilst data collection is costly, developing…Oct 16, 2017Oct 16, 2017
Lee CrawfurdWhy don’t parents value school effectiveness? (because they think LeBron’s coach is a genius)A new NBER study exploits the NYC centralised school admissions database to understand how parents choose which schools to apply for, and…Oct 11, 20171Oct 11, 20171
Lee CrawfurdWhy is there no interest in kinky learning?Just *how* poor are *your* beneficiaries though? In the aid project business everybody is obsessed with reaching the *poorest* of the poor…Sep 5, 2017Sep 5, 2017
Lee CrawfurdIntroducing… the Global Schools ForumThere’s nothing like sitting in a room full of people who build and run schools in the developing world to make you feel pretty inadequate…Mar 2, 2017Mar 2, 2017
Lee CrawfurdHow to spend aid in fragile countriesThe classic dilemma in figuring out how to spend aid money is the trade-off between:Jan 25, 2017Jan 25, 2017