Mary Burns explores how technology can be used as part of educational reform. She helps governments plan for technology use and designs, delivers and researches online and face-to-face teacher professional development.

In 1926, a group of boys in Nairobi, Kenya partook of an opportunity never before offered any student in Sub-Saharan Africa—they enrolled in secondary school. Alliance High School, the region’s first secondary school, focused on inculcating, among an elite group of boys, and later girls, scholarship, character, Christian faith and European values—considered at that time the essential canon for full participation in academic, professional and civic life.

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