Data Collection and Evidence Building to Support Education in Emergencies

This NORRAG Highlights published by Mary Mendenhall, Associate Professor of Practice and the Director of the International and Comparative Education program at Teachers College, Columbia University, and Arianna Pacifico, a doctoral student in the International and Comparative Education program at Teachers College, Columbia University, shows why quality data on Education in Emergencies (EiE) are critical by highlighting the contribution that NORRAG Special Issue 02 (NSI 02), launched in June 2019, makes to this field of research. The authors discuss the challenges concerning data collection in EiE and promising practices that can help to overcome them. Mendenhall and Pacifico shed light on the progress made in building a strong evidence base for the EiE field.