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A Better Education for All During—and After—the COVID-19 Pandemic

Research from the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and its partners shows how to help children learn amid erratic access to schools during a pandemic, and how those solutions may make progress toward the Sustainable Development Goal of ensuring a quality education for all by 2030.

New research shows tutoring can improve academic outcomes, mental health

A new study by U of T Mississauga economist Philip Oreopoulos shows that one-on-one and small group tutoring consistently improves academic achievements, offering important insight into ways to assist students struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tutoring: A time-tested solution to an unprecedented pandemic

An evidence review put forth by J-PAL points to the proven capability of well-targeted tutoring programs to reduce long-standing educational disparities that have been aggravated by the Covid-19 pandemic.

J-PAL North America launches MIT Roybal Center for Translational Research to Improve Health Care for the Aging

Center will work with affiliated researchers to test low-cost, high-impact behavioral interventions to improve health-care delivery and health outcomes for aging adults in the United States.

September 2020 North America Newsletter

J-PAL North America's September newsletter announces a webinar series on charting the next decade of evidence generation in state and local governments, the new Mobility From Poverty Learning Agenda, and a new evidence review on tutoring.

J-PAL North America launches research initiative to focus on Covid-19 recovery

The Covid-19 Recovery and Resilience Initiative aims to catalyze evidence-based policy solutions to the challenges posed by the pandemic.

How tutoring programs can combat the “Covid-19 slide”

Summarizing results from 96 randomized evaluations, new J-PAL North America publication highlights the sizable impact tutoring programs can have on student learning.

The crisis of mistrust and COVID-19: Race and re-imagining tracing and vaccination

COVID-19 has had a disproportionate effect on African Americans and it's time to re-imagine tracing and vaccination in order to control the virus.