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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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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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Education for sustainable development in action: learning & training tools
The purpose of the publication is to describe ways in which education for sustainable development (ESD) can be integrated into primary and secondary schooling. This collection of briefs is designed to complement other ESD materials published by UNESCO. Th
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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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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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Child Development Index 2012: Progress, Challenges and Inequality
The 2012 edition of the Child Development Index highlights the impressive progress the world has made in reducing child mortality and ensuring millions more children go to school. At the same time it warns of the impact of the failure to tackle child unde
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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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What Happened? A study on the impact of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in five countries: Estonia, Nepal, Peru, Uganda and Yemen
A study on the impact of the the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in Peru, Estonia, Uganda, Yemen and Nepal, undertaken by Save the Children Sweden. The UNCRC has had an undeniable impact at national level shown by changes to l
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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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Schooling and Conflict in Darfur: A Snapshot of Basic Education Services for Displaced Children
The Women's Refugee Commission partnered with the Population Council to provide a more accurate picture of the state of formal and non-formal education for displaced children of primary school age (6-14) in North and West Darfur. The findings in this repo
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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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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