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● projectScaled · national · 2009
Bridge Kenya (Bridge International Academies)
Network of low-cost schools founded in Kibera, Nairobi, in 2009, today part of the NewGlobe group. Highly standardized model: scripted lessons delivered to teachers via tablets, daily monitoring and centralized management.
illustrative atlas image · Katerina Holmes / Pexels01 The context
It operates in 30 of the 47 counties. A lottery-based RCT (~10,000 scholarship recipients out of ~25,000 applicants; Gray-Lobe, Keats, Kremer, Mbiti and Ozier) found gains among the largest in the literature (0.89 extra equivalent years in primary, 1.48 in pre-primary), although civil society organizations question the model and its labor conditions.
02 How it works
03 What it stands on
Evidence level
Own experience
Grounded in published theory
Documented evidence elsewhere
Independently evaluated here
Peer-reviewed research documents this project: the strongest evidence level in the atlas.
The evidence 2 ›
EvidenceCan Education be Standardized? Evidence from KenyaDevelopment Innovation Lab / Becker Friedman Institute, University of Chicago (working paper) · 2022
ContextCivil society organisations highlight limitations of new study on Bridge International Academies' education modelRight to Education Initiative · 2022