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Guidelines to Strengthen the Right to Education in National Frameworks
Member States are increasingly seeking ways and means to step up efforts to ensure their national systems and frameworks are aligned with international commitments and obligations in order to overcome challenges in the full implementation of the right to
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Marco de Acción Sector Educación ante el COVID-19
The Education Cluster in Venezuela, made up of civil society organizations and the United Nations, in coordination with the educational authorities, designed the Framework for Action in the Educational Sector before COVID-19. Its objective is to support t
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Outsourcing Primary Education in Liberia Leads to Mixed Results
The long-lasting effects of a 14-year civil war, compounded by school closures caused by the 2014 Ebola outbreak, have had a huge impact on Liberia’s education system. In early 2016, the Liberian Ministry of Education announced that it would contract the
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Waliku: Address student absenteeism and well-being through the strategic use of technology
Despite high enrolments in schools, student absenteeism is a problem in low-resource contexts. Average attendance rates tracked by school systems mask the extent of absenteeism at an individual level, which can easily be over 10% of school days or a month
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Plani Individual i Arsimit (PIA) dhe Udhëzuesi për Hartimin e Planit Individual të Arsimit për Fëmijë me Neoja të Veçanta Arsimore
The Individual Education Plan (PIA) is an official pedagogical document designed for children with special educational needs. The PIA is to be used for students who the municipal assessment team, or even the team at the institution level, has decided shou
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Changing Children's Lives: Risks and Opportunities. Young Lives Policy Paper
Children’s development and well-being are significantly influenced by their family and community environment, with poor and marginalised children facing a heavier burden of risk. This paper summarises emerging findings from Young Lives to show how childre
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Size and Sources of the Private School Premium in Test Scores in India. Young Lives Working Paper No. 98
This paper uses unique panel data to estimate value-added models of learning production in private and government schools in Andhra Pradesh (India), examine heterogeneity in the value-added of private schools, and identify the sources of learning in these
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Too Young to Fail: Giving all children a fair start in life
Too many children in the UK fail before they’ve even started in life. 'Too Young to Fail' shows that, through no fault of their own, poorer children as young as seven are on course for poorer life chances. While progress has been made over the past decade
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The Effect of Lengthening the School Day on Children's Achievement in Ethiopia. Young Lives Working Paper No. 119
Many schools in developing countries have four-hour school days and teach two groups of children each day. Governments are considering lengthening the school day, at great expense, to improve school quality. Advocates of the shift system argue the reform
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Child Labor & Educational Disadvantage – Breaking the Link, Building Opportunity. A Review by Gordon Brown
During the nineteenth century successive generations of social reformers mobilized to combat child labor – a practice that they cast as the moral equivalent of slavery. Their campaigns brought together political leaders, philanthropists, social movements
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Rights from the start- Early childhood care and education
Rights from the Start is intended to highlight a truth that should be uncontroversial: that every person is entitled to the right to care and education from birth. However, the shocking fact remains that 200 million children do not receive these rights at
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Theories of change in peacebuilding. Learning from the Experiences of Peacebuilding Initiatives in Nepal
This study is conducted as part of the initiative Strengthening Capacity to Design, Monitor and Evaluate Peacebuilding Programming, a collaborative project between CARE International UK and International Alert, implemented in Nepal, Uganda and Democratic