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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: 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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Policy brief: Education – Quality matters
Good-quality education is crucial to getting and keeping children in school. Achieving quality education is also a legally binding obligation on governments.But unless issues of quality are addressed urgently, internationally agreed targets to achieve uni
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The future is now. Education for children affected by conflict
More than half of all children who are out of school live in conflict-affected fragile states. What are the challenges to getting them into school? And what needs to be done? Save the Children’s Rewrite the Future campaign was launched in 2006 to get chil
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Three years on- Rewrite the Future
Three years ago (2006) Save the Children launched the Rewrite the Future campaign to take action for children in conflict-affected countries. Save the Children's campaign to Rewrite the Future has surpassed its initial goal and reached more than 10 millio
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Endline Report of Early Literacy among Pre-school and Primary School Children in Gaza Province, Mozambique
In response to the increasing need to ensure that Mozambican children develop sound early literacy skills, Save the Children initiated the Early Literacy Project in Mozambique in 2008. The target population for the project was approximately 7,800 preschoo
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Save the Children's Literacy Boost Results- Nepal 1 Year
Save the Children's Literacy Boost program began implementation in Kailali, a district in the far-western region of Nepal, in April 2009 at the start of the school year. The program was implemented in 16 schools and approximately 52 communities located in
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Continuidad y respeto por la diversidad: Fortaleciendo las transiciones tempranas en Perú
This working paper is part of a series on early transitions from Young Lives, a 15-year longitudinal study of childhood poverty in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam. It explores the diverse experiences of 28 children from four contrasting communities in P
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Gender Justice: Key to Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
With the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) 2015 target date fast approaching, discrimination and inequality are holding back progress on all of the Goals, which include gender equality and women’s empowerment, reducing hunger and poverty, achieving unive
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Save the Children's Literacy Boost Results: Malawi- Year 1
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 one impact of Save the Children’s Literacy Boost innovation
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Accelerated learning programmes in conflict-affected fragile states
38 million children of primary school age are out of school in conflict-affected fragile states (CAFS). In addition, millions of older children in CAFS have missed out on education because their experience of conflict has made it difficult for them to cop
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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