Stanford University

Happy New Year from REAP!

 

From raising teaching quality to boosting baby nutrition to using technology for learning, REAP is researching how to improve the health, nutrition, and education of China's rural poor families from a number of angles. As we look forward to the coming year, we're also looking back on the highlights of 2014, including:

 

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In addition to our research projects, in 2014 REAP made significant strides toward building a focus on quality impact evaluation in international education:

 

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     This fall, REAP launched its first ever impact evaluation training course at Shaanxi Normal University, teaching over 70 graduate students and faculty members the fundamentals of conducting a quantitatively rigorous impact evaluation study.  REAP faculty from around the world gathered in Xi'an to teach modules on econometrics, statistical programming, health economics, field logistics, and much more!

 

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   Together with the Graduate School of Education, REAP launched the International Education Initiative at Stanford, a cross-campus collaboration aimed at promoting greater collaboration around research and policy analysis in international education. The initiative includes a speaker series as well as workshops targeted at graduate students and young researchers.

  

 

 

 

The media is also noticing our work! If you haven't seen them yet, check out our news stories from 2014:

• The Economist: Myopia: Losing focus

• China Education Daily: The teacher performance pay dream can come true

• The Economist: Rural schools: Down and out in rural China

• The Economist: Malnutrition: The hungry and forgotten

• Scope: Seeking solutions to childhood anemia in China

• China News: Inside an internet power, who will pull poor children out of the digital divide? (in Chinese)

• Caixin Magazine: How can we make rural children attend high school? (in Chinese)

Did you catch all 12 of Scott Rozelle and Linxiu Zhang's Caixin Magazine columns?  Check them out here.

None of this would be possible without our fantastic partners and supporters.  We thank YOU, and look forward to continuing to work together to help China's rural poor harvest their dreams in 2015!