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The Promise of Preschool in Africa: A Randomized Impact Evaluation of Early Childhood Development in Rural Mozambique
The new World Bank report 'The Promise of Preschool in Africa: A Randomized Impact Evaluation of Early Childhood Development in Rural Mozambique', shows that early childhood programs help children thrive and learn more in rural Africa. Children in rural M
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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 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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Learning for Life: The State of the World's Girls 2012
The sixth report in Plan’s annual State of the World’s Girls series, ‘Learning for life’, takes a critical look at the state of girls’ education. The report argues that behind the success of global parity in primary education enrolment figures lies a cris
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Literacy Boost Community Action: Creating a Culture of Reading Outside School Walls
Literacy Boost is Save the Children’s innovative program to support the development of reading skills in young children. Teachers, students, parents and community members are engaged to help enhance the skills required for independent reading, while foste
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Growing up with the promise of the MDGs: Children’s hopes for the future of development
Improving children’s life chances is central to what the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are seeking to achieve. Based on an analysis of survey and qualitative data from 12,000 children in four countries – Ethiopia, India (Andhra Pradesh), Peru and Vi
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How the Global Partnership for Education Adds Value
This report shows how the Global Partnership model offers unique support for the education of all boys and girls in 59 low-income countries. By supporting development programs to achieve a country’s education goals (such as gender parity, quality learning
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A Guide to Costing Human Rights
This paper aims to improve the ability of civil society organisations to perform costing exercises for human rights policy by giving an overview of key concepts and definitions relevant to costing human rights policy, outlining steps that every human righ
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Literacy Boost. Yemen Baseline Report
The Literacy Boost programme aims to improve young readers literacy and is founded on the idea that reading is a key to unlocking further education and career potential. This programme starts implementing assessment of children’s literacy, followed by tra
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Literacy Boost- Dendi, Ethiopia. Three-month Report
In 2010, Save the Children began implementing the Literacy Boost program – an intervention focused on working with teachers and communities to improve children’s reading skills – in Oromia Region, Dendi District of Ethiopia. The Literacy Boost assessment
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Save the Children's Literacy Boost Results: Malawi, Year 2
In January 2009, Save the Children began Literacy Boost programming in Malawi, implementing both community and teacher focused interventions during a full school year. This report summarizes year two impact of Save the Children’s Literacy Boost innovation
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Education for all: Making the right to education part of every child’s reality
With four years to go until the 2015 deadline to achieve universal primary education, there is a lot to celebrate. Out-of-school numbers have been dropping and progress has been made towards the Education for All goals. Education for All highlights areas