The blog
Longer, slower
pieces.
Longer-form writing from Varna Sri Raman. Essays, dispatches, the occasional thinking-out-loud on measurement, parenting, and development practice. Short pieces live at Policy Grounds Press. The curation work lives in the Research Rundown. This room is for the slower writing.
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The EdTech Tulna question: what counts as impact?
When every edtech product defines 'impact' differently, how do funders and schools compare them? A note on building a common framework for a sector that resists one.
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Notes on why the book is about measurement
A short explanation of why I am spending the next few years writing The Measurement Trap.
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The PEARL problem: when district data is all you have
In a country where the census has not been updated since 2011, how do you estimate what is happening at the block level? A note on small-area estimation and the politics of granularity.
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What Meena Manch taught me about girls' agency
In 2009, a school-based girls' collective in rural India started delaying child marriages. The mechanism was simpler and more radical than anyone expected.
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