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1. 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:

   Publication year: 2017 Publisher(s): Save the Children | Translators without Borders Author(s): Ghandour-Demiri, Nada

2. 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

   Publication year: 2016 Publisher(s): Save the Children

3. Literacy Boost: Helping children develop reading skills in and out of school

   

   Literacy Boost is Save the Children’s innovative, evidence based response to an alarming global trend—the rise in the numbers of children finishing primary school who are unable to read well enough to learn. This document gives a four page overview of the

   Publication year: 2012 Publisher(s): Save the Children US

4. 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

   Publication year: 2012 Publisher(s): Save the Children US

5. Equity and Inclusion for All in Education

   

   The Global Campaign for Education’s report explores issues of marginalisation beyond gender, including disability, ethnicity and geographical location, and their implications for educational access and achievement. It undertakes a systematic analysis of t

   Publication year: 2012 Publisher(s): GCE, Global Campaign for Education Author(s): Grimes, Peter | Bagree, Sunit

6. 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

   Publication year: 2012 Publisher(s): Save the Children US Author(s): Guajardo, Jarret | Ochoa, Cecilia

7. Making Progress: Report of the Young Lives School Survey in Vietnam [Working Paper No. 100]

   

   In recent years Vietnam has achieved high levels of enrolment in basic education and undertaken important reforms intended to improve school quality. To understand home background and school-level influences on pupil achievement and progress and on the ef

   Publication year: 2013 Publisher(s): Young Lives | ODID, Oxford Department of International Development Author(s): Rolleston, Caine | James, Zoe | Pasquier-Doumer, Laure | Tran Ngo, Thi Minh Tam

8. 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

   Publication year: 2013 Publisher(s): Young Lives | ODID, Oxford Department of International Development Author(s): Singh, Abhijeet

9. Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills and Wages: The Role of Latent Abilities on the Gender Wage Gap in Peru. Young Lives Working paper No.118

   

   Recently there has been growing interest in the relationship between cognitive and non-cognitive abilities and labour market outcomes. A large literature provides evidence on the positive connection between cognitive test scores and higher wages. Fewer an

   Publication year: 2013 Publisher(s): Young Lives | ODID, Oxford Department of International Development Author(s): Lavado, Pablo | Velarde, Luciana | Yamada, Gustavo

10. 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

    Publication year: 2013 Publisher(s): Young Lives | ODID, Oxford Department of International Development Author(s): Pasquier-Doumer, Laure | Risso Brand, Fiorella

11. Literacy Boost: Beyond school walls. A boost for readers

    

    While more children are in school today than ever before, many are not learning basic skills like reading once they get there. Save the Children's Literacy Boost Program is helping to change that by creating a culture of reading both inside and outside th

    Publication year: 2013 Publisher(s): Save the Children US

12. What inequality means for children: Evidence from Young Lives

    

    This Young Lives paper is a contribution to the global thematic consultation addressing inequalities within the post-2015 development agenda which is being co-organised by UNICEF and UN Women. Failure to fully integrate equality principles is recognised a

    Publication year: 2012 Publisher(s): Young Lives | University of Oxford, Oxford | The Open University Author(s): Woodhead, Martin | Dornan, Paul | Murray, Helen

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