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Education against the Odds: Meeting marginalised children's demands for a quality education
Every day, millions of marginalised children go against the odds – by managing to get to school and learn. In their daily struggle for an education, these children are fighting for their right for a better future. Education Against the Odds presents findi
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Foundational Mathematics Education in Developing Countries
There is concern that children in developing countries are not learning sufficient mathematics skills. Focus on enrollment and literacy may have led to neglect of mathematics learning and less is known about the status in this area. According to a UNESCO
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The Road to 2021
With 100 years of global experience and over 50 years of work in India, Save the Children 2019-21 Strategic Plan builds on past achievements and learning. India has a critical role to play in achieving a world where no children die from preventable causes
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Effectiveness of Minimum Quality Standards for Primary Education in Low and Lower Middle-Income Countries
Minimum quality standards for education are common in low and lower middle-income countries. However, the scope and use of these standards are determined by the country’s level of development. Therefore, some countries have advanced standards, whilst othe
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Improving Access to Quality Basic Education: Unlocking Cambodia's future
Children in Cambodia are entitled to nine years of free education. However, certain groups of children struggle to access quality education at different stages in their lives. For example, disabled girls and children with intellectual disabilities are two
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Ready to Learn: Common approaches
Ready to Learn is Save the Children's program that helps 3 to 6-year-old children develop foundational literacy and math skills. The program is an evidence-driven, play-based response to the global learning crisis in which millions of children are not gai
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Quality of Education: Interrelationships between learning environments and learning outcomes and child development in basic education in Zimbabwe. Longitudinal study report 2014 – 2016.
I’m Learning is a Save the Children Norway led pilot project implemented in three countries between 2014 and 2017. The aim of the project was to develop and test effective programming methods for improving the quality of learning environments, as well as
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Numeracy Boost: Common approaches
Numeracy Boost is Save the Children's program to support the development of math skills of children in the early primary grades, both inside and outside the classroom. Maths is an integral component of foundational learning and research has shown that chi
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Forgotten Futures: The lives of refugee children in urban areas of Indonesia and Thailand
In two urban areas of Indonesia and Thailand, Greater Jakarta and Bangkok, live some 20,000 refugees, with limited access to basic rights, waiting for resettlement or the chance to return to their countries of origin. This study seeks to build an understa
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Boostons la Lecture et Boostons les Mathématiques Manuel
Literacy Boost is an innovative, evidence-based approach to improving literacy learning outcomes, and is increasing the reading skills of underperforming children in a growing number of program sites across the globe. The toolkit is a useful resource to a
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School Health and Nutrition Program Update: Issue 14- 2018
2018 marked the 20th year of SHN programming at Save the Children. In 1998, Save the Children made a commitment to SHN and piloted SHN programming using Child Sponsorship funding. It is exciting to know that those pilot programs proved so significant and
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The FRESH School Health and Nutrition (SHN) Webinar Series
The School Health and Nutrition webinar series provides monthly presentations by leading policy-makers, researchers and implementers engaged in improving the health and education of children in low and middle-income countries across the globe. The webina