As the year comes to a close, we look back at the most popular blogs published this year. In total, we published more than 150 blogs, including a few series covering inclusive education, gender equality, quality teaching, and Edtech.

We are grateful that partners continue to share their stories, reports, observations and findings on the GPE platform.

Here are the top 15 posts of 2025:

1. Improving learning: What research says on the effectiveness and scalability of teacher professional development
By Carmen Pon, Education Development Trust, and Sophie D’Aoust, International Development Research Center - IDRC

Key takeaways from GPE KIX research projects on how to scale the impact of promising or proven innovations on teacher professional development implemented between 2020-2024.

2. Ukraine shows why supporting education in emergencies matters globally
By Dr. Yevhen Kurdiavets, Ministry of Education and Science, Ukraine

Ukraine's experience of keeping children learning even during an active war shows that it is possible to prioritize education in crisis contexts. This is a valuable lesson for other countries experiencing crises, especially for their long-term stability and security.

3. Improving foundational learning using technology in Malawi: The role of data, evidence and partnerships
By Joe Wolf, and Rapelang Rabana, Imagine Worldwide

How a technology-based education program, supported by a GPE Multiplier grant, is contributing to the transformation of Malawi’s primary education system.

4. How planet-friendly school meals nurture healthier and sustainable food choices
By Silvia Pastorino, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Jacqueline Kung'u, African Population and Health Research Center, and Beryl Onjala, Gamos East Africa

Planet-friendly school meals as a catalyst for food system transformation, presenting a powerful lever for change that intersects climate action, nutrition, education and social equity.

5. Fit for the future? New research reveals the need to shift public spending in Africa to early childhood
By Sarah Hague, UNICEF, and Joa Keis, GPE Secretariat

How African countries can optimize the impact of their social spending and effectively build human capital that can foster equitable growth by rethinking the distribution of resources for children by age.

6. Education in climate policies – Why do we care?
By Jessica Cooke, Save the Children, and Sarah Beardmore, GPE Secretariat

Climate-smart education can be a powerful instrument to combat the most devastating impacts of climate change. With this new guidance, GPE and partners are supporting countries in updating their national climate policies.

7. Too young to be a mother: A GPE youth leader on child marriage, teenage pregnancy and forced displacement
By Faridah Luanda, Global Refugee Youth Network

Through her personal story, a GPE youth leader paints a vivid picture of the struggles many young girls endure when being forced to marry, why it is urgent to address this harmful practice, and how education can help achieve that.

8. The importance of structured pedagogy to improve learning in sub-Saharan Africa
By Steve Bissonnette, TÉLUQ University in Quebec, Canada

A structured pedagogy approach improves the performance of students. It can transform classroom practices to pave the way for education that is more inclusive and equitable in sub-Saharan Africa countries, where students have diverse needs and teachers have few resources.

9. Sierra Leone: More efficient and equitable education financing
By GPE Secretariat

Sierra Leone is improving budget efficiency and ensuring that newly hired teachers are placed where they're needed most - bringing quality education closer to disadvantaged communities.

10. 9 powerful quotes about the importance of gender equality in education
By GPE Secretariat

As we celebrate International Women’s Day, students, artists, youth leaders, CEOs of international organizations remind us of how critical it is to ensure that every girl and every boy around the world has access to quality education.

11. Cambodia: GPE support has enabled stronger planning for more equitable education
By GPE Secretariat

Cambodia participated in two evaluations of GPE support, shedding light on how the partnership has helped strengthen the country's education system.

12. Improving foundational learning in Benin: lessons from science for curricular reform
By Aigly Zafeirakou, The World Bank, and Pierre Chanou, National Institute for Training and Research in Education - INFRE, Benin

How a GPE-supported program, implemented with technical assistance from The World Bank, has contributed to improve foundational learning skills for young children in Benin.

13. The ripple effects of education: Unlocking change across sectors
By GPE Secretariat

Whether through improved health, economic growth, climate resilience, or peacebuilding, the ripple effects of education lead to transformational change for communities benefiting from it.

14. Who are the sleeping giants of quality early childhood education?
By Alison Naftalin and Eleanor Sykes, Lively Minds

Parents are key to solving the early learning crisis and countries like Ghana and Uganda, in partnership with Lively Minds, are showing what’s possible when governments recognize parents as critical agents of change.

15. How to incorporate mother tongue and community languages to improve learning
By Bodiel Fall, Marion Poutrel, Vjosa Rexhepi, ELAN Program, and Nataša Ivačić, VVOB - education for development

Examples of educational programs where using mother tongues or community language as the medium of instruction has improved teaching and learning.