Rebecca Winthrop is a senior fellow and director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. She is the former head of education for the International Rescue Committee, a humanitarian aid NGO. Her research focuses on education in the developing world, with special attention to innovative education models, the skills children need to succeed in life, and improving quality learning for the most marginalized children and youth, including girls and children affected by extreme violence. In a new book, Leapfrogging Inequality, Rebecca Winthrop and colleagues at the Center for Universal Education at Brookings chart a new path forward in global education by examining the possibility of “leapfrogging” educational development—rapidly accelerating progress to ensure that all young people develop the skills they need to thrive in a fast-changing world.