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▶️ Tune in! We're launching a new framework for better generation and use of cost evidence in global education and early childhood care https://t.co/YW2lSYR5Fr

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“No middle power can individually match the full spectrum of U.S. or Chinese AI capabilities. But collectively, they have enough capital, technology, talent, industrial data, and market scale to preserve meaningful technological agency.” - @dougrediker https://t.co/x51FJ3uqbG

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For decades, there have been repeated efforts to improve education systems worldwide. Yet classroom practices remain stubbornly unchanged. In a new report, Omar Qargha & co-authors propose a new approach—one that positions teachers as partners in reform. https://t.co/hCihwcYF5n

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“The Iran war’s greatest risk for U.S.-Africa relations is the strategic distraction that hands competitors a window to deepen their foothold on the continent.” New from @LandrySigne ⬇️ https://t.co/jBvnADg5EC

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What happens when a system chooses to place human connection at the center of learning? Jasen Booton and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek share lessons from Tonga’s education transformation. https://t.co/J9ahGFDi9s

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🎧 New podcast alert! On “Embedding Equality in Education,” hosts Jennifer O’Donoghue and Edem Dorothy Ossai connect research and lived experience to challenge prevailing narratives and advance gender transformative education. https://t.co/d9ub5nQAyF

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Shifting U.S. Perspectives on Africa: A Conversation with Congresswoman Sara Jacobs

For the Season 5 finale of the Foresight Africa Podcast, I had the great pleasure of sitting down with Congresswoman Sara Jacobs, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, for a timely conversation on U.S.-Africa relations and the future of multilateralism.

In the context of the 81st United Nations General Assembly, we discuss moving from aid to genuine partnership, unlocking trade and investment opportunities, strengthening peace and security, and how the United States can work with African partners to strengthen multilateral governance at a consequential moment for the global order.

A wonderful way to close an extraordinary season of conversations on the forces shaping U.S.-Africa relations and Africa’s place in a rapidly changing world.

Deeply grateful to Congresswoman Jacobs, all our remarkable guests throughout the season, our listeners, and the entire Foresight Africa team who made it possible!

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For the final episode of Foresight Africa Season 5, host @LandrySigne and U.S. Rep. Sara Jacobs discuss how the United States can position itself to improve multilateral governance and support international peace and security. https://t.co/iXOBz4SLgS

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Starting now! We're talking with researchers, technology leaders, and other key stakeholders about how AI tools can support rather than undermine healthy early childhood development and education.

Watch ▶️ https://t.co/LVCOaeB56i

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The 2025 surge in enforcement by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) cost jobs for workers, both immigrant and American-born.

And the shortfall in employment has continued to widen up to a year later, Marcela Escobari and co-authors find. https://t.co/FofeNYG7T1

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How is AI affecting children under 8? And what opportunities and risks do these technologies present?

On 9/9, join us for an event with early childhood development experts and industry leaders on how to ensure AI supports healthy development & learning. https://t.co/LVCOaeB56i

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Which country has the happiest students? Is AI in education at a crisis level? Rebecca Winthrop joined WIRED's Tech Support series to answer questions about how schools work around the world. https://t.co/g42OhFWRfC

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What does the war in Iran mean for U.S.-Africa relations? @LandrySigne warns that the U.S. preoccupation with Iran could lead to long-term costs to U.S. interests in Africa. https://t.co/jBvnADg5EC

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“Learning is something gathered, woven with care, and given with love, not simply delivered.”

Jasen Booton and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek explain how Tonga is embracing relationship-centered and playful learning to prepare students to flourish in the age of AI. https://t.co/J9ahGFDi9s

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Children have been forming relationships with stuffed animals and toys for generations. But what happens when the toys talk back?

Sweta Shah and Brinleigh Murphy-Reuter break down what we still don’t know about AI and children’s relationships. https://t.co/IfMxnW2UDs

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🌍 How can Africa help shape the global agenda at a moment of strained multilateral consensus?

Delighted to share a new episode of the Foresight Africa podcast, featuring my conversation with Ahunna Eziakonwa, UN Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General.

Ahead of #UNGA2026, we explore how African countries can move beyond reacting to global agendas to help set them—leveraging the continent’s growing strategic importance, extraordinary youth, innovation and technology, financial resources, women’s leadership, and the transformative potential of regional integration and the African Continental Free Trade Area.

We also discuss the future of multilateralism, Africa’s agency and voice in global governance, and what it will take to translate the continent’s extraordinary assets into greater prosperity and global influence.

A timely conversation as world leaders prepare to gather in New York.

🎧 Read and listen to the conversation here:
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Ahead of UNGA, @LandrySigne speaks with U.N. Under-Secretary-General & Special Adviser on Africa @ahunnaeziakonwa about the U.N.’s work to coordinate African development and how African countries are shaping a more sustainable and equitable global system. https://t.co/30mwDsl5qM

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The vast majority of students in the U.S. are using AI to help with schoolwork—but they’re also expressing growing discontent with these tools.

Rebecca Winthrop proposes student AI councils to build trust and help chart a path forward for schools. https://t.co/sY4wtORwN7

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The price tag to end extreme poverty is not a moonshot—it's just 0.3% of global GDP. This 17 Rooms memo reviews the evidence on cash transfers and proposes a national-scale program as proof of concept. https://t.co/zDD9ACmy5o

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Economic nationalism and the weaponization of economic interdependence are changing global economic governance.

Zia Qureshi outlines steps global institutions, groups of countries, and individual nations can take to navigate this new era. https://t.co/mzJnmz6Nqx