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Emergent Literacy and Math (ELM) Results: Bangladesh
In 2011, Save the Children field tested early childhood development resources geared toward developing emergent literacy and math (ELM) skills in young children. Testing was done as a part of a USAID-funded early childhood care and development (ECCD) prog
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La incidencia política de la sociedad civil por el derecho humano a la educación: relatos y aprendizajes desde América Latina y el Caribe
A document produced by the Latin American Campaign for the Right to Education (CLADE) that shares learnings and experiences from national coalitions of civil society organizations working for the right to education in Bolivia, Haiti, Nicaragua and the Dom
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Breaking the Cycle of Crisis: learning from Save the Children’s delivery of education in conflict-affected fragile states
Breaking the Cycle of Crisis presents expert synthesis of and reflections on four research-based evaluations of Save the Children’s Rewrite the Future work to improve the quality of children’s education in Afghanistan, Angola, Nepal and South Sudan.It is
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Global Education Digest 2012: The impact of grade repetition and early school leaving
The 2012 edition of the Global Education Digest from the UNESCO Institute of Statistics examines two persistent obstacles to universal primary education: high rates of grade repetition and early school leaving. The report finds that globally 32.2 million
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Youth and skills: putting education to work. EFA Global Monitoring Report, 2012
Many young people around the world — especially the disadvantaged — are leaving school without the skills they need to thrive in society and find decent jobs. As well as thwarting young people’s hopes, these education failures are jeopardizing equitable e
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Child centred disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation: Roles of Gender and Culture in Indonesia
This research study focused on two communities in Indonesia examined the benefits and feasibility of child-centred Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and the potential impact of gender and religion. Children were found to face many cultural and institutional b
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Manual for Early Childhood Rights Indicators (Manual of the Indicators of General Comment 7*)
General Comment 7: Implementing Child Rights in Early Childhood (GC7) was drafted and adopted in response to the observation by the Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) that young children under the age of 8 years were often overlooked in States p
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“They Took Me and Told Me Nothing” Female Genital Mutilation in Iraqi Kurdistan
The report "‘They Took Me and Told Me Nothing': Female Genital Mutilation in Iraqi Kurdistan," documents the experiences of young girls and women who undergo FGM against a backdrop of conflicting messages from some religious leaders and healthcare profess
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Reaching the marginalized: EFA global monitoring report, 2010
Education systems in many of the world's poorest countries are now experiencing the aftermath of the global economic downturn. The 2010 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, argues that the crisis could create a lost generation of children whose lif
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INEE Guidance Notes on teaching and learning
The INEE Guidance Notes on teaching and learning articulate good practice on critical issues related to curricula adaptation and development, instruction and learning processes, teacher training and support, and the assessment of learning outcomes, focusi
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Closer to home: how to help schools in low- and middle-income countries respond to children's language needs
Many children around the world find education impossible because they are taught in a language they don't understand. This guide offers advice on how to make school systems in low- and middle-income countries work better in today’s multilingual world. Thi
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Because You're a Girl: Growing Up in the Commonwealth
This report by Plan UK and the Royal Commonwealth Society reveals that New Zealand is the best place in the Commonwealth to be born a girl, while Sierra Leone and Nigeria are among the worst. 'Because You're a Girl: Growing Up in the Commonwealth', which