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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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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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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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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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Ending the Hidden Exclusion: Learning and equity in education post-2015
Save the Children International’s new report ‘Ending the hidden exclusion: Learning and equity in education post-2015’, looks at how to ensure that all children are both in school and learning. Millions of children suffer from a ‘hidden exclusion’ from ed
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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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Guide for working with Roma families towards achieving the success of their children in school. A transnational methodological proposal
This guide has been the product of the transnational project “Roma Families Get Involved: transnational methodology for working with Roma families towards their children´s success in education”. The involvement of the family in the education of children
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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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Attacks on Education: The impact of conflict and grave violations on children’s futures
The number of recorded attacks on education has increased in recent years. Almost 50 million children around the world are being denied schooling, and the number of attacks on education is rising, according to Save the Children's new report "Attack on Edu
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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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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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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