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b"On this week's Speaker Series podcast, we are joined by Zainab Qureshi, the LEAPS (Learning and Educational Achievement in Pakistan Schools) Senior Program Manager at the Center for International Development\\u2019s EPoD (Evidence for Policy Design). Zainab will be speaking about EPoD\\u2019s research on alleviating system-level constraints to improve student learning outcomes in Pakistan. \\n\\n// Originally recorded on December 6, 2019.\\n\\nAbout the talk:\\nSchool enrollment is up in Pakistan, but student learning outcomes remain vastly sub-standard. At same time, widespread local entrepreneurship has dramatically changed Pakistan's education landscape, with 42% of school-going children now attending low cost private schools. Transformational research by the LEAPS program shows that\\u202fimproving education quality will require moving beyond the traditional approach of input augmentation towards a new, systems-based approach that explores how to catalyze innovation in the entire education ecosystem and help schools help themselves. \\n\\nThis talk will outline the Learning and Educational Achievement in Pakistan Schools (LEAPS) team\\u2019s research on how to alleviate system-level constraints to improve student learning outcomes. Lead researchers on LEAPS are Prof. Tahir Andrabi\\u202f(Pomona),\\u202fProf. Jishnu Das\\u202f(Georgetown) and\\u202fProf. Asim Ijaz Khwaja\\u202f(Harvard Kennedy School). \\n\\nAbout the Speaker:\\nZainab Qureshi is the\\u202fLEAPS Senior Program Manager at\\u202fEPoD, overseeing implementation of Education and policy research in Pakistan. She has previously worked at various organizations across the Education sector in Pakistan, implementing low cost Education delivery programs and developing an alternate model of education for low income schools. She holds a Master\\u2019s in Education (Ed.M.) from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a BA in Economics and International Development from McGill University."