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TagLast edit: 15 May 2022 20:23 UTC by Pablo

Use this tag for discussions of education in developed or developing countries as a potential cause area. For posts related to teaching EA concepts, use effective altruism education.

Further reading

Calvert, Callum (2019) Cause area report: education, Founders Pledge.

GiveWell (2018) Education in developing countries, GiveWell, April.

Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2018) Economist Bryan Caplan thinks education is mostly pointless showing off. We test the strength of his case, 80,000 Hours, May 22.

Rachel Glen­ner­ster: En­gag­ing de­vel­op­ing coun­try governments

EA Global6 Aug 2016 0:40 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Re­view of Ed­u­ca­tion In­ter­ven­tions and Char­i­ties in Sub-Sa­haran Africa

Huwelium25 Feb 2019 16:51 UTC
14 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] 12 years of ed­u­ca­tion as a miss­ing cause priority

lucy.ea87 Aug 2019 2:49 UTC
1 point
5 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Global ba­sic ed­u­ca­tion as a miss­ing cause priority

lucy.ea88 Aug 2019 1:19 UTC
5 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

Are we ne­glect­ing ed­u­ca­tion? Philos­o­phy in schools as a longter­mist area

Jack Malde30 Jul 2020 16:31 UTC
62 points
29 comments18 min readEA link

The Best Ed­u­ca­tional In­sti­tu­tion in the World

SamuelKnoche14 Aug 2020 17:23 UTC
12 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

The Case for Education

SamuelKnoche14 Aug 2020 17:26 UTC
23 points
10 comments10 min readEA link

As part of EA Fel­low­ship need the help of ex­perts in the field of ped­a­gogy and /​ or psychology

Daniel Shechter21 Apr 2021 5:15 UTC
14 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Lant Pritch­ett on the fu­til­ity of “smart buys” in de­vel­op­ing-world education

Aaron Gertler18 Jul 2021 23:00 UTC
58 points
14 comments6 min readEA link

EA megapro­jects continued

mariushobbhahn3 Dec 2021 10:33 UTC
183 points
49 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] Does any­one know of any work that in­ves­ti­gates whether pri­vate schools add value to so­ciety vs only change *who* at­tains so­cioe­co­nomic suc­cess?

freedomandutility19 Dec 2021 21:55 UTC
13 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Bryan Ca­plan meets Socrates

Sam Enright5 Feb 2022 12:25 UTC
17 points
5 comments8 min readEA link

Po­ten­tial strate­gies for im­prov­ing EA-re­lated re­search dis­til­la­tion, re­cruit­ment, and pedagogy

Katrina17 Mar 2022 17:32 UTC
8 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Ra­tional Ed­u­ca­tion as a Cause Pri­or­ity?

Yassin Alaya9 Apr 2022 11:11 UTC
10 points
5 comments6 min readEA link

Bulk­ing in­for­ma­tion ad­di­tion­al­ities in global de­vel­op­ment for medium-term lo­cal prosperity

brb24311 Apr 2022 17:52 UTC
4 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

14 Tech­niques to Ac­cel­er­ate Your Learning

davidhartsough15 Apr 2022 12:09 UTC
46 points
4 comments11 min readEA link

Ed­u­ca­tion in Africa

Brainy9 May 2022 19:19 UTC
1 point
2 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] What’s the causal effect of a PhD?

Gavin5 Jun 2022 8:37 UTC
26 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Break­ing Up Elite Colleges

sahajsharda7 Jun 2022 5:21 UTC
4 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(sahajsharda.substack.com)

Weekly EA Global Com­mu­nity Meet and Greet.

Brainy10 Jun 2022 11:10 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

The Case for Mak­ing Pro­fes­sional De­grees Un­der­grad­u­ate Degrees

ColdButtonIssues8 Jul 2022 19:56 UTC
38 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

Talk­ing EA to my philos­o­phy friends

Eleni_A14 Jul 2022 8:48 UTC
11 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Qual­ity mat­ters: Early child­hood ed­u­ca­tion and de­vel­op­ment in Nepal

Alisha Karki11 Aug 2022 10:39 UTC
8 points
1 comment10 min readEA link

Large-scale In­ter­na­tional Ed­u­ca­tional Mi­gra­tion: A Shal­low Investigation

Johannes Haushofer12 Aug 2022 12:42 UTC
72 points
6 comments17 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Early Child­hood Education

Anne Fitzpatrick24 Aug 2022 10:40 UTC
10 points
0 comments10 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Achiev­ing world peace through women’s ed­u­ca­tion and self-development

Open Philanthropy28 Aug 2022 8:24 UTC
5 points
0 comments21 min readEA link

I’m build­ing an EA-Univer­sity /​ In­sti­tute (and I need your help)

Benjamin Eidam28 Aug 2022 14:04 UTC
17 points
13 comments7 min readEA link

Pop­u­lar ed­u­ca­tion in Swe­den: much more than you wanted to know

Henrik Karlsson11 Sep 2022 22:04 UTC
9 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing “Effec­tive Dropouts”

Yonatan Cale21 Sep 2022 14:00 UTC
64 points
28 comments3 min readEA link

You Can Embed Flash­card Quizzes in Your posts!

Florence26 Sep 2022 11:51 UTC
56 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Job list­ing (open): Two po­si­tions at Malengo

Johannes Haushofer30 Sep 2022 8:43 UTC
35 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Question] Effec­tive­ness of Malala fund ver­sus Global Health and Devel­op­ment Fund

Joseph Gardi1 Oct 2022 2:35 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Call to Ac­tion: Help your high school gain spon­sor­ship to run a char­ity election

Adam Steinberg3 Oct 2022 8:24 UTC
25 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Courses and col­lab­o­ra­tive books on Effec­tive Altru­ism with So­cial-Psy­chol­ogy & Judg­ment and De­ci­sion-Mak­ing [Feed­back ap­pre­ci­ated]

Gilad Feldman11 Oct 2022 3:56 UTC
24 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

Ed­u­ca­tion not meant for mass-consumption

Tolo24 Oct 2022 14:09 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Re­mem­ber to trans­late your thoughts back again

brook1 Nov 2022 8:51 UTC
5 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Job list­ing (open): Pro­gram Man­ager Ger­many, Malengo (Ger­man fluency re­quired)

Johannes Haushofer25 Nov 2022 3:38 UTC
18 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Does putting kids in school now put money in their pock­ets later? Re­vis­it­ing a nat­u­ral ex­per­i­ment in Indonesia

David Roodman25 Nov 2022 21:09 UTC
125 points
24 comments18 min readEA link

Ta­lent search-nur­ture pro­gram in ru­ral In­dia—Progress and Asks

Akash Kulgod9 Dec 2022 7:55 UTC
22 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

Cause Sugges­tion: Econ Literacy

Yonatan Cale18 Dec 2022 18:16 UTC
21 points
21 comments3 min readEA link

Why I think that teach­ing philos­o­phy is high impact

Eleni_A19 Dec 2022 23:00 UTC
17 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

How to bring EA into the class­room?

TimSpreeuwers26 Dec 2022 19:13 UTC
8 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

How to Catch a ChatGPT Cheat: 7 Prac­ti­cal Tips

Marshall27 Dec 2022 16:09 UTC
8 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Should AI writ­ers be pro­hibited in ed­u­ca­tion?

Eleni_A16 Jan 2023 22:29 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Shal­low Re­port on Productivity

Joel Tan25 Jan 2023 8:18 UTC
24 points
4 comments17 min readEA link

New Nu­clear Se­cu­rity Syl­labus + Sum­mer Course

Maya D1 May 2023 17:02 UTC
45 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

List of Masters Pro­grams in Tech Policy, Public Policy and Se­cu­rity (Europe)

sberg29 May 2023 10:23 UTC
47 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Dreams of “Matho­pe­dia”

NicholasKross2 Jun 2023 1:30 UTC
6 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Ex­pert trap (Part 2 of 3) – how hind­sight, hi­er­ar­chy, and con­fir­ma­tion bi­ases break con­duc­tivity and ac­cu­racy of knowledge

Pawel Sysiak9 Jun 2023 22:53 UTC
3 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Open Thread: July—Septem­ber 2023

Lizka2 Jul 2023 22:09 UTC
29 points
88 comments1 min readEA link

HugeMDB: Vol­un­teer Ed­u­ca­tional Chem­istry Project

HugeMDB3 Jul 2023 13:44 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.multi-d.com)

Are ed­u­ca­tion in­ter­ven­tions as cost effec­tive as the top health in­ter­ven­tions? Five sep­a­rate lines of ev­i­dence for the in­come effects of bet­ter ed­u­ca­tion [Founders Pledge]

Vadim Albinsky13 Jul 2023 13:35 UTC
145 points
13 comments33 min readEA link

Ex­pert trap: Ways out (Part 3 of 3) – how hind­sight, hi­er­ar­chy, and con­fir­ma­tion bi­ases break con­duc­tivity and ac­cu­racy of knowledge

Pawel Sysiak22 Jul 2023 13:05 UTC
2 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

[Question] Best Meth­ods for My Prob­lem Areas

Cole12312 Aug 2023 15:22 UTC
3 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

CE alert: 2 new in­ter­ven­tions for Fe­bru­ary-March 2024 In­cu­ba­tion Program

CE17 Aug 2023 15:18 UTC
96 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

Seek­ing In­for­ma­tion on Po­ten­tial Sup­port for Ed­u­ca­tors in LMICs

emmannaemeka12 Sep 2023 21:38 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Question] Does study­ing stats rather than maths re­duce im­pact­ful ca­reer op­tions?

Transient Altruist15 Sep 2023 16:08 UTC
2 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] I’m in­ter­view­ing Bryan Ca­plan. What should I ask him?

Robert_Wiblin13 Oct 2023 14:52 UTC
19 points
23 comments1 min readEA link

Malengo Ex­pands Work on In­ter­na­tional Ed­u­ca­tional Mi­gra­tion: Our Update

Johannes Haushofer19 Oct 2023 15:16 UTC
46 points
5 comments17 min readEA link

Rarely is the Ques­tion Asked: Is Our Chil­dren Learn­ing? [The Learn­ing Cri­sis in LMIC Ed­u­ca­tion]

Lauren Gilbert22 Dec 2023 9:28 UTC
76 points
8 comments1 min readEA link
(asteriskmag.com)

AMA: Emma Slaw­in­ski, the RSPCA’s Direc­tor of Policy, Preven­tion and Cam­paigns.

tobytrem24 Jan 2024 9:16 UTC
46 points
32 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Fundrais­ing for a School in Liberia

Gianyrox29 Jan 2024 9:22 UTC
6 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Es­say Prizes: non-main­stream education

Ben Yeoh12 Feb 2024 12:08 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

So­cial sci­ence re­search we’d like to see on global health and wellbe­ing [Open Philan­thropy]

Aaron Gertler15 Feb 2024 0:28 UTC
164 points
8 comments17 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

[Question] Should effec­tive al­tru­ists learn a wide range of sub­jects?

jackchang11016 Feb 2024 2:29 UTC
4 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Ed­u­ca­tion: Teach­ing Love (Philia/​Brotherly love) as a Pri­or­ity Cause

Keen Visionary3 Mar 2024 18:35 UTC
7 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

How Ed­u­ca­tional Courses Help Build Fields: Les­sons from AI Safety Fundamentals

Jamie B24 Mar 2024 18:40 UTC
46 points
9 comments13 min readEA link
(jamiebernardi.com)

The Blind Spot in AI Tu­tors Hold­ing Stu­dents and Poverty Alle­vi­a­tion Back

Nicolas Forero26 Mar 2024 1:06 UTC
2 points
1 comment4 min readEA link
(nicolasforero.substack.com)
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