From the Field
Field Notes & Position Papers
Dispatches from classrooms, coaching sessions, and late-night WhatsApp conversations. What we’re learning, what’s working, and what isn’t.
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Position Papers
The Egg in the Cake Mix
Why the lesson planning debate is asking the wrong question — and what actually determines whether a teacher improves.
Read the paperThe Foundation We Are Not Building
Why remediation is the wrong starting point — what Pakistan's early years gap is actually costing, and what must change.
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A Winter Morning in Quetta
Security checkpoints. No heating. 17 schools. This is what the AI found when it listened to every lesson in Balochistan.
Read this issueAfter the Last Light
1,870 teachers stay up after their families fall asleep to coach themselves. Nobody asked them to.
Read this issueThe Forgotten Layer
Why no one invests in the person running the school.
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