Quality Education Research

  • Learn about other people and organizations working on quality education

RESEARCH AND POWERFUL ACTION IDEAS

Here are some things to explore within SDG 4. Click each tab to learn more.

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United Nations

Main UN SDG site that lists all targets for this SDG.

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UNICEF Data

UNICEF provides data related to children, especially in the area of education.

UNESCO Institute for Statistics

provides data on all SDGs and has a lot of data on the SDG 4 targets.

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Our World in Data

Includes many good graphs and maps that provide data on education around the world.

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The Global Goals

Good resource that provides an overview of resources and ways to take actions for SDG 4.

UN Stats

United Nations Statistics Division compiles and disseminates global statistical information on all SDGs.

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Escuela Nueva

meaning ‘New School’ in Spanish, is a systemic intervention that transforms the traditional classroom and the way of learning. The organization promotes active, participatory, cooperative, and personalized learning centered on the learner.

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Speed School

run by the Strømme Foundation, is an accelerated education program that provides a second chance to education for out-of-school children and youth in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger.

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Radio Play Labs

by BRAC deliver remote, playful learning experiences for children ages three to six in Uganda to support their development of critical cognitive and social skills.

Pratham

established in 1995 to provide education to children in the slums of Mumbai, with programs today reaching children and youth across India.

Khan Academy

is a nonprofit providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.

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Roots of Empathy

from Canada have reached 1.2 million children around the world, offering empathy-based programs in schools and childcare centers.

Malala Yousafzai,  a Pakistani activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who is a strong advocate for girls’ education, especially girls in conflict-affected areas.

Fundacion Pies Descalzos is a non-profit organization created by renown singer-songwriter and humanitarian Shakira to improve the education and social development of children in Colombia.

Vee Kativhu is the Founder of Empowered By Vee, a charity aimed at widening access to higher education. Vee delivers skill-based workshops to students from underrepresented and marginalized backgrounds.

Learning Passport provides access to education for children, youth, and teachers around the world through portable education to support their entry into other education or opportunity pathways.

Education activist Farida Ally founded Elimu Care, a community based organization championing for educational development via the LEG model,  (Leadership and youth empowerment , Education and community empowerment , and Gender equity and equality)

Duolingo

is a fun, free app for learning 40+ languages through quick, bite-sized lessons. It uses a gamified approach to language learning, with lessons that incorporate translating, interactive exercises, quizzes, and stories.

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PraxiLabs

offers a virtual laboratory solution for science education that replicates real-world experiments in the fields of biology, chemistry, and physics.

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DeCode

is a mobile app that puts CS vocabulary into visually-guided flashcards and tailors the GPT-4 language model to assist non-English-speaking programming enthusiasts.

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PhotoMath

Helps students understand math better. You can take a photo of a problem and it provides simple, and sometimes multiple, solutions and explanations to the problem.

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Pustaka

encourages users to explore books and literacy. Users can track their progress with a Reading Journal, discover new books with other Pustakawan and connect with fellow readers.

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GO FURTHER

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  • Follow people who are working in this space – check out their social media pages to learn more and possibly contact them.
  • Reach out to local universities (or even remote!) where people are working towards quality education in the area you are focusing on.
  • Scroll to the bottom of websites and papers to look at the bibliography – many great links can lead you to more projects and information.