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Rebecca is a leading global expert on education, children’s learning, and the skills they need for work, life, and citizenship.

Future Forward: Special Guest Episode

Today: The Kids are all right. But are they? Author and Senior Fellow Rebecca Winthrop, director of the Center for Universal Education at Brookings went on a wild ride into the world of education and kids, and what she found may surprise you. In this episode, she discusses the differences between the Brookings Institution and the Heritage Foundation, Socrates’ mistrust of the written word, the age-old worry every generation has about its youth. and the importance of student engagement and agency

In conversation with… Rebecca Winthrop

Rebecca Winthrop is a senior research fellow and co-director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution, where she has remained for over 15 years, and was previously the Senior Technical Advisor for Education at the International Rescue Committee. Rebecca’s key focuses are promoting quality and relevant education, particularly for the most marginalised children and youth. In a new episode of ‘In conversation with...’, our CEO Dan Sandhu talks to Rebecca about the global challenges in international education development, including:

  • equipping young people with the right mix of skills to thrive in today’s world

  • harnessing technology to rethink educational models in low-resource settings

  • what international development organisations can do to enhance their support in foundational learning

  • how Brookings is going to make a difference in education in the next few years.

How Family Engagement Leads to Student Success | HundrED

Engaging parents and families to help make education more aligned with innovative pedagogy is critical if change efforts to education are to be sustained. But how do we build more trusting relationships between families and schools? In this video, the Grable Foundation’s Executive Director Gregg Behr sits down with HundrED's Head of Research Crystal Green and Rebecca Winthrop, senior fellow and Director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution for a discussion on the impact of parental engagement.

Rebecca Winthrop and Emilia Ahvenjärvi : Risks & Opportunities for Education (sub. ENG) | #enlightED

Rebecca Winthrop, Director of the Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, and Emilia Ahvenjärvi, Science and Education Attaché at the Embassy of Finland in Buenos Aires talk about risks and opportunities in education.

Keynote speeches: Jack Ma and HRH Princess Laurentien | Session 1, Day 1 | Forum for World Education

Rebecca Winthrop weighs in on a panel for the Forum of World Education on the visions for the future of education and what it will take to achieve them.

The power of parents in accelerating global education progress

Senior Fellow Rebecca Winthrop, director of the Center for Universal Education at Brookings, says that global organizations project that by 2030 half of the world's young people will not have the 21st-century skills and academic competencies they will need to thrive. The pace of change is too slow, and it could take a century for the poorest children to catch up. What's needed, she said, is a way to rapidly accelerate progress by leapfrogging education. And parents have a crucial role to play in this transformation. In this episode, Winthrop talks with four education leaders, whom she met at the LEGO Idea Conference in Denmark, about the role of parents and the power of innovative approaches like playful learning in pursuing education transformation.