Erfan Ed

https://www.cgdev.org/blog/feed-all-the-kids-and-let-them-go-to-school

Feed All The Kids, and Let Them Go To School for Free Suppose you’re the minister of education in a lower-middle income country. It’s budget season. You have a meeting tomorrow with the finance minister to make your case for more education spending. You know she’s skeptical that money is really what’s holding your school system back. The World ...

"There are significant debates and differences of opinion within the Taliban on education. There is a tension between the preferences of the Taliban’s traditionalists and hardliners, and those who recognise that Afghanistan needs more diverse and more modern ideas and approaches within its education system. Even so, there is still a far stronger emphasis on, and preference for, Islamic education."

Taliban attitudes and policies towards education An analysis of the evolution of Taliban educational policy in Afghanistan

"Teachers should be given the liberty to focus on how to create more interactive touchpoints with students, more than trying to recreate online resources similar to those that already exist. This isn’t just healthier for the students; teachers will also get more energy from interacting with their students than they do from spending time in a home recording studio making Khan Academy-style videos."

Opinion | I Started Khan Academy. We Can Still Avoid an Education Catastrophe. Virtual school will never be a perfect replacement for in-person learning, but there’s a lot of room for improvement.