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Remote phone-based targeted tutoring in five countries produced large, cost-effective learning gains during school closures, outperforming text messaging and working effectively when delivered by gove...

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Remote phone-based targeted tutoring in five countries produced large, cost-effective learning gains during school closures, outperforming text messaging and working effectively when delivered by governments or non-governmental organizations to strengthen education resilience.

On this week’s show: How to implement the results of education research at a global scale, and whether mind-altering rituals drove pre-Inca societies to new heights

Nature, Published online: 09 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10990-xRemote phone-based targeted tutoring in five countries produced large, cost-effective learning gains during school closures, outperforming text messaging and working effectively when delivered by governments or non-governmental organizations to strengthen education resilience.

A persistent global learning crisis calls for studying the implementation of “what works” at scale

Remote phone-based targeted tutoring in five countries produced large, cost-effective learning gains during school closures, outperforming text messaging and working effectively when delivered by gove...

Education researchers should move beyond small, tightly controlled studies and focus much more heavily on how effective programmes can be implemented by governments at scale, according to a new analys...

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As pupils across the UK return to the classroom this September, Dr Noam Angrist, Academic Director of the What Works Hub for Global Education and Senior Research Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Gove...

Education systems can use particular type of mobile phone tutoring to maintain and improve children’s learning during major disruptions such as school closures, which affect hundreds of millions of ch...

A new J-PAL Policy Insight reviewing 30 studies across low- and middle-income countries finds that mobile phones can improve student learning, teacher performance, and parental engagement, but only when paired with interactive, two-way pedagogy rather than one-way messaging.

A new J-PAL Policy Insight reviewing 30 studies across low- and middle-income countries finds that mobile phones can improve student learning, teacher performance, and parental engagement, but only wh...

Here we present a new analysis of national government education sector plans from 134 countries spanning nearly three decades (2000–2025), which we refer to throughout as “education plans”. We see cle...

Abstract. This article estimates the effect of sex education in a large-scale cluster randomized trial covering a third of Botswana that varied both the me

What is the best way of implementing targeted instruction in practice? This piece draws on the latest evidence and experience to inform this question and operationalise several core components.

Mobile phones are a scalable, low-cost platform to improve learning by engaging students, teachers, and parents in hard-to-reach settings.

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From funders to governments, a shared push for cost-effectiveness is driving interest in continuous, low-cost testing.

Abstract. Addressing climate change requires individual behavior change and voter support for proclimate policies, yet surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, ...

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This blog is the first in a series examining evidence use among international aid agencies and national governments, as resources get ever tighter. The series will focus specifically on the uptake of ...

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The 2026 What Works Hub for Global Education Conference explores foundational learning policy & programme implementation in the Global South.