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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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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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Results for learning report 2012. Fostering evidence-based dialogue to monitor access and quality in education
The Results for Learning Report is part of the Global Partnership for Education’s (GPE) monitoring and evaluation strategy to measure the progress made in helping developing nations implement their own education sector plans. This is the first of a series
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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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Delivering quality early learning in low-resource settings. Progress and challenges in Ethiopia. Working Paper No. 59-- Bernard Van Leer Foundation
Ethiopia offers a case study in the development of Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) in low-resource settings, which needs to be understood in the context of recent government priorities to universalise primary education, and low levels of ECCE of
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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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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
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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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Save the Children's Literacy Boost Results- Mozambique
In 2008, Save the Children launched the Early Literacy Project in Mozambique, to help 7,800 preschool and primary school-age children, including children affected by HIV/AIDS and other vulnerabilities, develop sound early literacy skills. This project ran
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Save the Children Presentation: Conceptual Framework for Literacy Intervention. Addis Ababa Conference 2011
Save the Children's Literacy Boost program is an intervention focused on working with teachers and communities to improve children’s reading skills. This presentation reviews the conceptual framework and the research backing Literacy Boost, as well as the
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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