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Country fact sheet- Commendable practices for child rights in Iraq
The “Manara Network: A civil society for Child’s Rights” was designed and implemented by Save the Children Sweden (SCS) in collaboration with the International Bureau for Children’s Rights (IBCR), along with local civil society organisations (CSOs) from t
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Exploring the dynamics of exclusion in education
Save the Children Sweden’ study “Exploring the Dynamics of Exclusion in Education” uses the Community based Education Management Information System (C-EMIS) approach to analyze and enhance the understanding of factors and dynamics of exclusion from Educat