EI Dialogues with Lant Pritchett, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford (S3E1)

In this episode of EI Dialogues, we converse with Dr. Lant Pritchett. Dr. Pritchett is a development economist and currently, the RISE Research Director at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. During the conversation, he provides a background about the challenges within education in the Indian context while explaining the importance of Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) and sharing instances from education research. He also elaborates on the concept of RCTs, including when and how they can be adapted to the field of development economics, and to what extent policymakers should rely on impact evaluations when judging multiple interventions. Time Codes: @16:06 - Foundational Literacy and Numeracy in the Indian Context @39:23 - Research and Learning Methods to Improve Learning Outcomes About the Guest: Lant Pritchett is a development economist from Idaho. He graduated from BYU in 1983 and from MIT with a PhD in Economics in 1988. He worked with the World Bank from 1988 to 2007, living in Indonesia 1998-2000 and India 2004-2007. He taught at the Harvard Kennedy School from 2000 to 2018 (on leave from 2004-2007, 2012-13, 2018-2019) where he was, at times, the Faculty Chair of the MPA/ID Degree program. He has published over a hundred books, journal articles, working papers with over fifty different co-authors and has over 38,000 citations on development topics from education to economic growth to state capability to labor mobility (and more). He is currently affiliated with Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government. Source: https://lantpritchett.org/bios/ About RISE Programme and the Blavatnik School of Government (BSG), University of Oxford: Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE) is a multi-country research programme that aims to build understanding of education systems and how they can be transformed to significantly improve learning. The Programme has research teams currently working in India, Pakistan, Tanzania, and Vietnam, with a further two teams scheduled to be announced in Spring 2017. Information and output from the RISE research, as well as other relevant education systems information, will be disseminated via the RISE Programme page. RISE is funded with UK and Australian aid from the UK and Australian governments. Based in Oxford, UK, the RISE Directorate convenes a partnership of organisations to lead, manage and implement the research programme: Oxford Policy Management and Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. Founded in 2010, the Blavatnik School of Government (BSG) exists to inspire and support better government and public policy around the world. They teach current and future public leaders through innovative programmes, research pressing issues facing public policy makers around the world, and convene leaders and experts to foster better policy. Sources: [https://www.linkedin.com/company/rise-programme/about/,](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rise-programme/about/) https://www.riseprogramme.org/background, https://www.riseprogramme.org/node/270 About Educational Initiatives (EI): Educational Initiatives (EI) was founded in 2001 with the vision to create a world where children everywhere are learning with understanding. Our focus lies in educational research, assessments and pedagogy-based personalized adaptive learning (PAL). We, thus, continue to strive to leverage the twin levers of cutting-edge educational research and a technology-based solutions approach to revolutionize how children in the K-12 education space learn. Large Scale Education Programmes (LSEP) is the vertical of EI that brings EI's expertise to government schools across India in partnership with CSR arms of companies, grant-making organizations, philanthropists, foundations, and multilateral. To know more, visit www.ei-india.com For other episodes, check out: www.youtube.com/user/eivideos DISCLAIMER All content and opinions expressed in the conversation are that of the guests and are not necessarily the opinions of Pranav Kothari or Educational Initiatives Pvt Ltd. Views expressed in comments are the personal opinions of the author of the comment. They do not necessarily reflect the views of The Company or the host of the video series. Participants are responsible for the content of their comments and all comments that are posted are in the public domain. The Company reserves the right to monitor, edit, and/or publish any submitted comments. Any third-party comments published are third party information and The Company takes no responsibility and disclaims all liability. The Company reserves the right but is not obligated to monitor and delete any comments or postings at any time without notice.

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