As school systems continue to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, much of the global discussion about educational performance revolves around a small subset of mostly high-income countries. But, according to Harmonized Learning Outcomes, a metric from the World Bank, performance can vary widely among countries with similar levels of spending on education, find senior partners Kartik Jayaram and Jimmy Sarakatsannis and coauthors. Click through the interactive to see more.
To read the report, see “Spark & Sustain: How all of the world’s school systems can improve learning at scale,” February 12, 2024.