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Connecting youth with proven life-changing information.
https://www.youth-impact.org/
Don't miss today's A/B testing workshop ‼️
#CIES2026
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What Works Hub for Global Education
12 days ago
📏 When budgets are tight, regular & systematic implementation measurement is more essential than ever. Join us at a
#CIES2026
workshop where we'll outline a practical approach with useful tools to help researchers & implementers track & compare implementation across a range of education programmes.
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Join us on 29 March for a hands-on workshop on A/B testing at
#CIES2026
📊 We’ll break down what A/B testing is, share real examples from our work and partners, and explore how you can use it to deepen impact, reduce costs, and scale more effectively.
#IterativeTesting
#ImplementationScience
12 days ago
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🌍 Youth Impact at CIES 2026 We’re thrilled to be back at CIES this year, joining several sessions to share insights from our work. See our full session schedule 👇
#CIES2026
#GlobalEducation
#FoundationalLearning
#EvidenceInAction
#YouthImpact
20 days ago
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Happening soon! 🚨 Register:
www.wwhge.org/events/itera...
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26 days ago
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📍 Webinar: Iterative A/B Testing — A Practical Toolkit to Optimise What Works at Scale | 11 March 👉Register:
www.wwhge.org/events/itera...
@wwhglobaled.bsky.social
@poverty-action.bsky.social
@theagencyfund.bsky.social
@noamangrist.bsky.social
#IterativeTesting
#Education
#ImplementationScience
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📽️Watch our Head of Research and Innovation, Claire Cullen, join the
@voxdev.bsky.social
Ideas in Development Podcast to discuss how India is leveraging AI for development:
voxdev.org/topic/techno...
#AIForGood
#EdTech
#TeachingAtTheRightLevel
#India
#AI4Development
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Three ways India is using AI for development
Organisations in India are already using AI for development across its courts, classrooms and farms.
https://voxdev.org/topic/technology-innovation/three-ways-india-using-ai-development
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Reflections from the India AI Impact Summit 2026 ✨ Last week, we joined changemakers from across the Global South to explore how AI can drive real social impact. A key highlight? Presenting Ganitha Ganaka (ConnectEd) and our experiments with an AI-led assessment bot.
#IndiaAIImpactSummit
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📈Scaling What Works: Institutionalizing mEducation in Public Education Systems Join this webinar hosted by
@hundredorg.bsky.social
and
@poverty-action.bsky.social
, featuring our co-founder
@noamangrist.bsky.social
, to explore what it takes to institutionalise what works.
about 1 month ago
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What Works Hub for Global Education
about 2 months ago
📢 Save the date: the What Works Hub for Global Education Conference 2026 will take place on 15–16 September this year! 📍 The conference will be held at the Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford, UK, & it will be accessible online.
#WWHGEConf26
#ImplementationScience
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💡What happens when educators unite around 1 goal; improving numeracy for every learner? Last week in South East Botswana, 95 teachers & Heads of Department from 20 schools came together for TaRL numeracy training, ready to strengthen foundational maths skills in the classroom.
about 2 months ago
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💡How do you actually put A/B testing into practice? We’ve learned it works best when tests are small, practical, and built into real program decisions, prioritizing learning over perfection.
#YouthImpact
#ABTesting
#WhatWorks
#SocialImpact
2 months ago
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What makes iterative A/B tests so powerful for social impact work? It’s the Three Rs: 🔹 Rigorous — causal evidence from randomized variations 🔹 Rapid — results in weeks or months 🔹 Regular — continuous learning cycle
#MonitoringAndEvaluation
#ImpactOptimization
2 months ago
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What Works Hub for Global Education
2 months ago
📚 What would happen to the global economy if 90% of children could read by age 10? A new analysis of 114 countries finds that universal
#FoundationalLearning
would produce 🌍 +$196 trillion in economic output 👛 +27% in per capita GDP & more. ➡️ Read:
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Noam Angrist
3 months ago
📣 New piece on the core components of teaching at the right level combining insight from RCTs + adjacent fields + implementer views. To scale programs, we need to know their core components - what can't be removed to preserve impact & what can be removed to lower cost:
www.wwhge.org/resources/co...
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Core components of teaching at the right level - What Works Hub for Global Education
This paper uses evidence & implementer insights to unpack proven teaching at the right level programmes into a set of ‘core components.’
https://www.wwhge.org/resources/core-components-of-teaching-at-the-right-level/
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In the social sector, waiting years for evaluation results can mean missed opportunities. Iterative A/B testing bridges the gap between measurement and implementation delivering causal evidence in weeks, not years to improve programs as they roll out. 🧵
@ssir.org
@noamangrist.bsky.social
3 months ago
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Noam Angrist
3 months ago
📣 Passionate about closing the gap between evidence and day-to-day implementation? Check out our new article "Iterative A/B testing for Social Impact: Rigorous, Rapid, and Regular" now out in
@ssir.org
w/
@mandabeat.bsky.social
@ccullen.bsky.social
Tendekai Mukoyi
ssir.org/articles/ent...
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Iterative A/B Testing for Social Impact: Rigorous, Rapid, Regular (SSIR)
How organizations can close the gap between measurement and implementation
https://ssir.org/articles/entry/iterative-a-b-testing-social-impact
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✨ When committed teachers and strong partnerships come together, learning can thrive anywhere. Learn more about our work in the Philippines: 👉
www.youth-impact.org/the-philippi...
#YouthImpact
#mEducation
#EducationForAll
#Philippines
3 months ago
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Missed our Q4 newsletter? Catch up on our latest news, including: 📊 Our new A/B testing toolkit 📚 Program updates from the field 🏆 Key milestones & achievements 💼 Latest vacancies 👉
mailchi.mp/youth-impact...
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3 months ago
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⭐️2025 Highlight #2 In February, we launched our Education Compass, giving Botswana one of the clearest pictures yet of foundational learning. 📘📊 A new edition is coming in early 2026, building on what we learned in the first study. 👉 More here:
www.youth-impact.org/press-releas...
4 months ago
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⭐️2025 Highlight #1 This year, our flagship adolescent health program officially became Choices — a name that reflects what it empowers young people to make every day. 💛✨ 👉 Read more:
www.youth-impact.org/choices-new-...
#YouthImpact
#ChoicesProgram
#AdolescentHealth
4 months ago
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Ending the year strong 🌟 We’ve now run 75 A/B tests. Our new toolkit captures everything we’ve learned and how we test in real time. More A/B testing content coming in 2026. Download: youth-impact.org/insights/a-b-testing-toolkit
#YouthImpact
#ABTesting
@wwhglobaled.bsky.social
@j-pal.bsky.social
4 months ago
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Our new Iterative A/B Testing Toolkit is live 🥳 A decade of A/B tests distilled into practical tools for rapid, rigorous learning. ⬇️Download: youth-impact.org/insights/a-b-testing-toolkit
@noamangrist.bsky.social
@j-pal.bsky.social
#YouthImpact
#ABTesting
4 months ago
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👉 How do we scale up interventions without losing effectiveness? 📺 Watch the full keynote panel from the Australasian Aid Conference 2025 featuring our co-founder
@noamangrist.bsky.social
:
www.youtube.com/live/tv-xZJl...
#ImplementationScience
#AAC2025
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AAC2025 Keynote Panel - The art and science of scale
YouTube video by Development Policy Centre
https://www.youtube.com/live/tv-xZJlHGIk?si=shGeQZNoxmca37AY
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What Works Hub for Global Education
4 months ago
📈 How can we ensure that ‘what works’ still works at scale? On 4 Dec, 1:30pm AEDT (Canberra time), tune into an Australasian AID Conference panel on the science of scale & implementation that will explore this question and more. ➡️ Watch on YouTube:
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❤️🩹 World AIDS Day This year’s theme says it best: Overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response. ✨Our Choices program gives young people in Botswana the tools to understand risky behaviour, make safer decisions, and protect their futures.
#WorldAIDSDay
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What Works Hub for Global Education
4 months ago
➡️ Learn more by visiting our event page:
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🔧 Or learn about our new
#Implementation
Research at the Middle Tier initiative:
www.wwhge.org/what-we-do/i...
@gatesfoundation.bsky.social
@youthimpactorg.bsky.social
@michellekaffs.bsky.social
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Implementation research at the middle tier - What Works Hub for Global Education
Learn about our initiative aiming to support the middle tier to understand & strengthen the conditions that enable effective implementation.
https://www.wwhge.org/what-we-do/initiatives/implementation-research-at-the-middle-tier/
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Youth Impact
What Works Hub for Global Education
4 months ago
⏰ Join us on 3 Dec for a webinar on the middle tier of govt, which plays a crucial role in implementation of
#FoundationalLearning
reforms. You'll hear insights from Dept of Basic Education, South Africa; FHI 360; Language & Learning Foundation; Meerkat Learning & VVOB. ➡️ Register:
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The Middle tier Initiative Webinar · Zoom · Luma
Theme: Bringing the Middle Tier into Focus: implementation research to enable system change. Join our upcoming webinar to learn more about our mission to…
https://luma.com/28613v0i
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When expanding a social program, maintaining impact at scale is hard. What if it wasn’t? In our new guest post on
@j-pal.bsky.social
, we share how 12 iterative A/B tests helped us optimize phone-based tutoring, boosting effectiveness and cutting costs. Read:
povertyactionlab.org/blog/11-20-2...
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Twelve iterative A/B tests to optimize tutoring for scale
In a series of 12 iterative A/B tests, researchers compared two versions of our tutoring program in Botswana to see which performed better. At the end of each test, results were compared and whichever...
https://povertyactionlab.org/blog/11-20-25/twelve-iterative-ab-tests-optimize-tutoring-scale
4 months ago
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J-PAL
5 months ago
In a new J-PAL guest blog,
@youthimpactorg.bsky.social
shares how running 12 iterative A/B tests helped optimize a tutoring program—finding that one test doubled the program's effectiveness. Read more about using iterative A/B tests to refine a program:
https://bit.ly/4oOBfpA
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Twelve iterative A/B tests to optimize tutoring for scale
In a series of 12 iterative A/B tests, researchers compared two versions of our tutoring program in Botswana to see which performed better. At the end of each test, results were compared and whichever...
https://www.povertyactionlab.org/blog/11-20-25/twelve-iterative-ab-tests-optimize-tutoring-scale
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Every child deserves the chance to learn, grow, and thrive. 🌱 That’s why one of our core values, ‘Youth First,’ guides us every day as we work toward our vision of all youth thriving. ✨ Happy
#WorldChildrensDay
!
#YouthImpact
#ForEveryChild
#YouthThriving
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🤝🏼The Choices team met with the Kweneng Region Education Office (Botswana) and its sub-regions for a stakeholder engagement session to share program results and strengthen collaboration. Working closely with government partners is central to how we deliver impact 🚀
#AdolescentHealth
#ScalingImpact
5 months ago
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We’re thrilled! 🎉 Both our education programs
#TaRL
&
#mEducation
(ConnectEd) have been named in @HundrEDorg’s Top 100 global education innovations to watch in 2026! 🌍 📘
hundred.org/en/reports/hundred-global-collection-2026
#YouthImpact
#HundrED
#EducationInnovation
5 months ago
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Noam Angrist
5 months ago
📣
@youthimpactorg.bsky.social
is hiring a Learning Partnerships Lead, who will lead A/B testing partnerships & high-profile research-to-action partnerships:
www.youth-impact.org/join-our-tea...
➡️ An exciting role for those who care about rigorous evidence being used in practice on a day-to-day basis
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Learning Partnerships Lead | Youth Impact
We are seeking a dynamic, experienced research manager and communicator to lead Youth Impact’s A/B testing partnerships and external research collaborations. This role will sit at the intersection of ...
https://www.youth-impact.org/join-our-team/learning-partnerships-lead
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🗞️ Our Q3 Newsletter is out! This quarter, we’re spotlighting evidence in action; from innovation in foundational learning and health programming to key milestones. 🚀 Catch up on the latest updates, impact stories, and insights: 👉
mailchi.mp/youth-impact...
#EvidenceInAction
#Education
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5 months ago
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Can A/B testing translate from the tech sector to the social sector? Our new working paper on 12 iterative experiments says “yes” ✅ 58% of our 12 A/B tests improved efficiency. That’s higher than tech benchmarks. 👉New working paper
www.wwhge.org/resources/ch...
5 months ago
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We ran 12 A/B tests in 3 years. Each built on the last. Iteration = real results: lower costs, higher learning. A nimble way to scale evidence-based programs. 👉New working paper:
www.wwhge.org/resources/ch...
6 months ago
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Noam Angrist
6 months ago
📣 Our paper is out on 12 A/B tests all together showing *big* efficiency gains! So excited about this paper & broader approach. We optimize tutoring programs which are famously effective but hard to scale. Highlights👇
@wwhglobaled.bsky.social
@youthimpactorg.bsky.social
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What Works Hub for Global Education
6 months ago
🆕 New working paper out now! Cheaper (and more effective) by the dozen: Evidence from 12 randomised A/B tests optimising tutoring for scale, by
@noamangrist.bsky.social
,
@ccullen.bsky.social
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@janicalapati.bsky.social
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@youthimpactorg.bsky.social
📍 Read more:
www.wwhge.org/resources/ch...
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Cheaper (and more effective) by the dozen: Evidence from 12 randomised A/B tests optimising tutoring for scale - What Works Hub for Global Education
This paper presents iterative randomised A/B tests of a mobile phone numeracy tutoring programme to optimise efficiency and scalability.
https://www.wwhge.org/resources/cheaper-and-more-effective-by-the-dozen-evidence-from-12-randomised-a-b-tests-optimising-tutoring-for-scale/
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Impact starts with strong facilitators 💪🏼 We’re thrilled to have 21 new facilitators on board in North West province, who successfully completed their training and will be implementing TaRL across schools in Khuma, SA. 🔗Learn more about our work in South Africa:
www.youth-impact.org/southafrica
6 months ago
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Jacobs Foundation
6 months ago
📰
#ICYMI
Our autumn What We Learn newsletter highlights milestones in evidence & education, from Beyond 1 Billion to CEPE’s locally led reform in Colombia. 🔗 Catch up:
jacobsfoundation.org/what-we-lear...
#Learning
#Philanthropy
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📍Thrilled to showcase our work on Day 1 of the 9th International Workshop on Adolescence, SRHR & HIV 2025 with two posters from our Choices program: 📱 A phone-based intervention to curb inter-generational sex 👩🏫 How class setups (mixed vs. single gender) affect knowledge retention
6 months ago
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💡 “Techniques like A/B testing, widely used in tech, are a sister to randomized trials. Instead of a control group, you compare Version A and Version B — everyone gets something, just with a tweak.” – @noamangrist.bsky.social
#YouthImpact
#EvidenceInAction
#ABTesting
#IndiaScaleUpSummit
6 months ago
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What Works Hub for Global Education
7 months ago
Last week, the Department of Basic Education South Africa, Zenex Foundation, and the British Council, in close partnership with
@wwhglobaled.bsky.social
, hosted an exciting three-day
#EdLab
Peer Learning Event in
#SouthAfrica
, with Education Lab teams from South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya and Botswana.
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What Works Hub for Global Education
7 months ago
📣 Join us
@wwhglobaled.bsky.social
at
#UKFIETConf
2025! Tomorrow
@ukfiet.bsky.social
, we are hosting a panel on
#EdLabs
, 'Partnerships to strengthen evidence uptake and use: lessons from Education Labs'. 📍 2pm–3.30pm | Tue 16 Sep | Room 9 🔗
ukfiet2025.exordo.com/programme/pr...
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In partnership with Meerkat Learning, we're thrilled to have completed our 1st pre-service training in partnership with the University of Namibia! 🎉 ✅ 200 student teachers trained in the TaRL learning support methodology ✅ Set to implement TaRL during their School Based Studies placements in 2026
7 months ago
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✨“People matter more than projects and places—we follow the people.” At our town hall, co-founders
@noamangrist.bsky.social
and Moitshepi Matsheng answer questions from the team, sharing lessons learned and thoughts on what the future holds for Youth Impact.
7 months ago
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📖✨Celebrating International Literacy Day! After just one term of TaRL Literacy in Botswana, the percentage of students able to read a story jumped from 17% to 45%🥳 👉 Learn more about the TaRL Literacy program:
www.youth-impact.org/teaching-at-...
#InternationalLiteracyDay
#FoundationalLearning
7 months ago
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✨ Foundational learning is the key to thriving youth Moitshepi Matsheng, co-founder of Youth Impact, expands on our work with Teaching at the Right Level and how we share the
@palnetworkhq.bsky.social
vision: ensuring every child learns to read with understanding and do basic maths. 🧵
7 months ago
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Noam Angrist
7 months ago
Great to speak at the Conference on Quantitative Education Research at Stellenbosch University in South Africa w/ a unique mix of researchers, policymakers & practitioners, to hear from the Minister of Education + a stunning mountain backdrop!
@whatworksgrowth.bsky.social
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