Tag: Education
12 Articles
- Press
Jishnu Das discusses the long-term returns to investments in foundational learning
"Investing in foundational learning is turning out to be one of the best interventions in."…
January 8, 2026
- Student Blogs
Rwanda Summer Experience
Jenna Mazza's blog about her summer in Kigali working on the STARS project (Summer)…
September 12, 2025
- Publications
Blog : A simple text message intervention can help improve the effectiveness of government programmes
James Habyarimana and Jacobus Cilliers explain how we can improve government program.…
November 14, 2024
- Student Blogs
Summer 2019 – Tanzania
Rafael Contreras Gomez “This is one of those lessons that could not have been learned in the classroom and for that, I’m grateful I was given this opportunity.”Read…
November 11, 2019
- Student Blogs
Rafael Contreras Gomez
As I suspect it was the case for many of my classmates, I applied to the gui2de summer internship seeking an experience that would allow me to connect the analytical work I was…
November 11, 2019
- Student Blogs
Shilpa Rao
This past summer, I spent ten weeks in Dar es Salaam supporting the Tanzania Country Research Team of Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), a multi-country research…
November 9, 2019
- Student Blogs
Odiche Nwabuikwu
My summer working with RISE in Tanzania was one of the most challenging and rewarding of my life. The past ten weeks were fast paced, but they also gave unique experiences I…
November 9, 2019
- Student Blogs
Isaac Liu
My internship in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania was with Dr. Richard Shukia of UDSM, the University of Dar es Salaam. As one of the two undergrads on the team in Tanzania, I completed a…
November 9, 2019
- Student Blogs
Tanzania Student Blogs: Summer 2017
gui2de interns went to Tanzania to work on the Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE) program. Here’s what they had to say… On the RISE:…
July 31, 2017
- Student Blogs
Summer 2017 – East Africa
“We began to appreciate how little changes and incentives, if carefully thought out, can have a big impact on people’s lives.” During the Summer 2017 term,…
July 14, 2017