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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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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
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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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Boletín sobre políticas públicas sobre infancia en el Perú [Abril 2012]
This paper examines the policy of Intercultural Bilingual Education (abbreviated to EIB in Spanish), a policy intended to give indigenous children in Peru access to education relevant to their linguistic and cultural background. However, there are not eno
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Literacy Boost Uganda Midline Report 2012
The Literacy Boost program is an intervention focused on working with teachers and communities to improve children’s reading skills. The Literacy Boost Uganda Midline Report examines the results of a student background survey and reading assessment conduc
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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
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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
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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