Improving Primary School Education

Associate Professor Jean-Francois Trani is working on a four-year intervention alongside a research team in Afghanistan and Pakistan to improve learning achievements for students in grades 3-5. The team is working with school communities and three partners, Norwegian Afghanistan Committee, Swedish Committee for Afghanistan and the National Rural Support Programme in Pakistan, which support government schools or run community-based schools in rural areas of both countries. Aiming to engage students, parents and teachers to elaborate on a diagram of the school system and identify effective ideas for intervention.