Recent Writing

COVID-19 and children

→ Protecting children on the move during infectious disease outbreaks: lessons from UNICEF's COVID-19 response | UNICEF

→ Responding to mental health and psychosocial impacts of COVID-19 on children and families | UNICEF

→ For immigrant students, remote learning during COVID-19 comes with more hurdles | The Conversation

→ Responding to the shadow pandemic: taking stock of gender-based violence risks and responses during COVID-19 | UNICEF

Global education policy

→ What is the relationship between politics, education reforms, and learning? | The World Bank

→ Skills in the digital age: How should education systems evolve?  | The Brookings Institution

→ Innovation and Technology to Accelerate Progress in Education | The Education Commission

→ Learning ‘Anytime, Anywhere’?: The Imperfect Alignment of Immigrant Students’ Experiences and School-based Technologies in an Urban U.S. High School | Comparative Education Review

Rwanda’s education system

→ Why Did Rwanda Abruptly Change the Language in Schools—Again? | World Politics Review

→ For the third time in 11 years, Rwanda changed the language used in primary schools | The Washington Post

→ Can politics explain persistently low education quality in Rwanda? | Research on Improving Education Systems

→ The things they learned: aspiration, uncertainty, and schooling in Rwanda’s developmental state | Journal of Development Studies, Recipient of the 2020 Dudley Seers Memorial Prize for Best Article

→ The political economy of primary education: lessons from Rwanda | World Development, Recipient of 2018 Joyce Cain Award from the Comparative and International Education Society

→ The hidden costs of fee-free schooling in Rwanda | Compare

Child protection in emergencies

→ Protecting the children of Haiti | New England Journal of Medicine

→ Child protection and sexual exploitation of adolescent girls within and beyond refugee camps in Rwanda | Child Abuse and Neglect