Education

In 2025, J-WEL became part of J-PAL after ten successful years as an independent lab at MIT working with educational innovators around the world to transform education at scale. In addition to supporting our education research and policy work, J-WEL supports our evidence-to-policy partnerships with governments; the MENA Scholars Fellowship; the Alliance for Data, Evaluation, and Policy Training, and Project AI Evidence. 

J-PAL's Education sector supports policymakers in applying evidence from randomized evaluations to their work. Sector chairs and staff also write policy insights that synthesize general lessons emerging from the research, condense results from evaluations in policy publications and evaluation summaries, and fund new research through the Learning for All Initiative.

Past education sector initiatives include the Post Primary Education Initiative and the Foundations of Learning Initiative.