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Language & Comprehension Barriers in Greece’s Migration Crisis: A study on the multitude of languages and comprehension of material provided to refugees and migrants in Greece
A notable feature of the refugee crisis starting in 2015 has been the diversity of languages and ethnicities of refugees and migrants. Approximately 95 percent of the refugees and migrants who arrived in Greece in 2015 and 2016 came from seven countries:
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Mid Term Evaluation IDEA Project
The IDEA project was designed to improve literacy levels and increase the use of better food and health practices in primary school age children in the department of El Quiché using products and funds provided by FAS. The mid-term evaluation of the Invest
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Il mio Primo Italiano: Piccolo manuale di lingua italiana
This is a publication designed to support newly arrived foreign minors to learn the Italian language.
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Review: Teacher Support and Development Interventions
Save the Children commissioned research on teacher support and development as part of a strategy to build professional and technical capacity through sharing knowledge at global, regional and country levels. The research, which this document summarizes, s
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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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Aspiration Failure: A poverty trap for indigenous children in Peru? Young Lives Working Paper No. 116
This paper aims to contribute to understand the mechanisms underlying the complex exclusion process of indigenous people in Peru, by analysing the role played by aspirations in the investment in education of indigenous children. Aspirations of indigenous
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Literacy Boost. Dendi, Ethiopia. Endline II- Final Report
In 2011, Save the Children (SC) began implementing the second year of the Literacy Boost (LB) program. The program, designed to improve reading skills for early grade students, focuses on working with teachers, parents, and community members, as well as p
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International agreement on the rights of disabled people [Easy read version]
An easy-to-read version of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). The purpose of the document is to ensure that the human rights and freedoms of disabled persons are promoted, protected and understood by all. It contains mu
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Save the Children Presentation on Learning to Read Overview: Major Issues, Overall Challenges
Save the Children's presentation at the All Children Reading Workshop, Kigali, Rwanda, in March 2012. It reviews the major issues and overall challenges to learning to read, including the necessary reading skills, active learning methodologies, mother ton
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Save the Children Presentation on Literacy Boost: Lessons from Assessment and Community
Save the Children's presentation of ' Literacy Boost: Lessons from Assessment and Community' outlines what Literacy Boost is, the role of assessment and tracking individual students, the role of community and parental support, the role of text and materia
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Save the Children's Literacy Boost Toolkit: Introduction
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. This introductory document is designe
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Save the Children Presentation All Children Reading Asia: Community involvement and parental support. Technical Session 2
A presentation by Save the Children for the All Children Reading Asia Regional Workshop held in Bangkok, Thailand, September 17-20, 2012. It reviews the challenges to early grades reading in Asia; what research says about improving children's reading acqu