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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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What Determines Learning Among Kinh and Ethnic Minority Students in Vietnam? An Analysis of the Round 2 Young Lives Data [Working paper No. 80]
Ethnic minority children in Vietnam score much lower on mathematics and reading tests than do ethnic Vietnamese (Kinh) children. This paper examines the acquisition of mathematics and reading skills in Vietnam, using the Young Lives household survey data
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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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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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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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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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School drop out: patterns, causes, changes and policies: Background paper for the Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2011- The hidden crisis: armed conflict and education
Policies to improve school progression and reduce the numbers of children dropping out of school are critical if Universal Primary Education (UPE) is to be achieved. This background paper for the UNESCO Global Monitoring Report (GMR) team draws on a range
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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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Situation Analysis and Recommendations: Dampier Peninsula Indigenous Parenting Support Services
The Indigenous Parenting Support Program is aimed to strengthen parenting skills and support the development, learning and well-being of Indigenous children. The program works to encourage Indigenous parents to overcome barriers to good family relationshi
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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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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
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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