About Us

The EdVillage Model

EdVillage is uniquely positioned to bring together lessons learned from around the world, particularly focusing on leadership and school development, to launch and support high-quality schools that educate all children. Through world-class school leadership training and technical assistance to new and existing schools, EdVillage is growing the supply of high-quality university preparatory schools serving the world’s most impoverished communities. By linking these schools in a global community of education excellence, EdVillage is creating a powerful network for knowledge sharing and advocacy to affect systemic change in international education.

The Need

In recent years, the international community has mobilized around the critical issue of universal access to primary education, resulting in the additional enrollment of millions of children in the educational system in many countries. However, many public educational systems are ill equipped to serve all of these students, particularly those from economically disadvantaged communities. As a result, hundreds of millions of children around the world are in school but the quality of their school and overall level of learning remains very low.

Innovative School Models Expand the Supply

Successful initiatives in education reform have sprung up across the globe over the last two decades. New schools created through public-private partnerships between governments and non-government organizations offer hope in the effort to bring quality education opportunities to the most underserved segments of global society. These schools operate in the government sector, the private sector or the third sector – a middle ground between traditional government schools and expensive, exclusive private schools. While each of these high-quality schools is unique, they all share common and necessary characteristics: strong leadership and an unyielding focus on student learning.