Since 2014, the Center for Universal Education (CUE) at the Brookings Institution has sought to address the challenges of scaling impact in education through the Millions Learning project, which focuses on how and under what conditions quality education innovations scale. In 2020, as part of our ongoing work on scaling for impact, Millions Learning joined the Global Partnership for Education’s (GPE) Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (KIX)—a joint partnership between GPE and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)—to facilitate a cross-national, multi-team, design-based research and professional support initiative called Research on Scaling the Impact of Innovations in Education (ROSIE). ROSIE brings together KIX researchers and practitioners working in 30 low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) to study processes of scaling education initiatives and deepen impact of their ongoing work.
Additionally, Millions Learning is pursuing a complementary qualitative study on how governments identify, adopt, and support education innovations to scale. The first report from this study, titled “How do government decisionmakers adopt education innovations for scale? Implications for national-level education policymaking in low- and middle-income countries” is part of this series.
For the research informing this second report, we identified and explored five dimensions that exert influence on government decisionmaking regarding the scaling of education innovations.
