17 Sep 2026
UN Talks on Free Education Advance as States Weigh Next Steps
In this blogpost, Bede Sheppard reports on a UN session in early September at which governments continued a process that aims to... Read More
06 Nov 2025
Designing for Equity in Outcomes-Based Financing: Lessons from Rwanda’s Early Childhood Outcomes Fund
In this blogpost, which is part of NORRAG’s Financing Education and Early Childhood Education blog series, Ella Wright, drawing on lessons from... Read More
08 Apr 2025
New RTE Guide on Monitoring Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) from a Human Rights Perspective: Launch and Workshop Invitation
The Right to Education Initiative (RTE) is announcing the launch of its new guide: Monitoring Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) from... Read More
13 Mar 2025
IELS: International Testing Comes to the Kindergarten
In this blogpost, which is part of NORRAG’s Early Childhood Education blog series, Diana Sousa, Paul Morris and Peter Moss discuss the... Read More
30 Jan 2025
Ukubaluleka kobuchwepheshe : Ethical AI as a Tool for Decolonizing South Africa’s Early Childhood Development Sector
In this blogpost, Sithole kaMiya argues that AI presents a unique opportunity to reverse the historical trend of marginalizing Indigenous knowledge in... Read More
12 Dec 2024
Ukuqonda Ezilimini Zethu: Mother Tongue-Based Bilingual Education as a Decolonial Response to Literacy Challenges in South Africa’s Early Childhood Development (ECD)
In this blog post, which is part of NORRAG’s Early Childhood Education and #TheSouthAlsoKnows blog series, Nkosana Sithole kaMiya and Athenkosi Mndende... Read More
03 Aug 2023
How Can Early Childhood Educators Improve Their Working Conditions?
In this blogpost, Michelle Neuman and Tomi Oyedele discuss the global challenge of recruiting and retaining qualified early childhood workers. They look... Read More
25 May 2023
[Part 3] The Preschool Entitlement, a Locally Adaptable Policy Instrument to Expand and Improve Preschool Education - Implementing the Preschool Entitlement: coordination, phases and bottlenecks
This is the third and last blog in a mini-series on “The Preschool Entitlement”, a locally adaptable policy instrument to expand and... Read More
13 Apr 2023
[Part 2] The Preschool Entitlement, a Locally Adaptable Policy Instrument to Expand and Improve Preschool Education, by Jan van Ravens and Luis Crouch - Preschool education for all: how governments, communities, families and stakeholders can jointly make it happen
This is the second blog in a mini-series on “The Preschool Entitlement”, a locally adaptable policy instrument to expand and improve preschool... Read More
30 Mar 2023
[Part 1] The Preschool Entitlement, a Locally Adaptable Policy Instrument to Expand and Improve Preschool Education - Participation in preprimary education
A recent publication from RTI International highlights the slow expansion of preprimary education worldwide and proposes a concrete policy instrument to address... Read More