Goal of the project

The Schools Project started with the simple, initial goal of looking at the field of education through a different lens; a lens of understanding, a lens of collaboration, a lens of exploration. The goal would be met by old fashioned means: boots on the ground, traveling to rural and urban schools, talking with educators, gaining a grasp of how this educational process works around the world. Of what inspires educators. Of what resources are critically lacking. Of what kind of connections could be made between foreign schools in their search for pedagogical answers.
The project still follows this simple recipe: of walking into schools in the developing world, of running assessments of these schools, and in seeing the trends in education from a first hand perspective, a perspective that can hopefully lend itself to future answers in this complicated, multi-faceted land. It has also branched off to observe the role of technology and other radical educational philosophies that are being implemented in reaching the "unreachables:" small communities that have remained off the grid and thus continue to suffer from both the educational and digital divide. These observations are crucial in gaining an understanding of the issues, and the home-grown solutions that are being implemented in the developing world to address these issues.
Thus, the mission of the Schools Project is a chronicle, a diary, a hope, for the future of education development throughout the world.

"Young people often ask us how they can address an issue like sex trafficking or international poverty. Our first recommendation to them is to get out and see the world...to tackle an issue effectively, you need to understand it-and its impossible to understand an issue by simply reading about it. You need to see it firsthand, even live in its midst..."

-Nicholas Kristof