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Bangladesh Program: Emergent and early grades reading assessment- Baseline report
Since 2007, Save the Children has been introducing program-focused early grade reading assessments in selected basic education programs.This report explores the validity of an early grades reading assessment in Bangla, and examines baseline reading abilit
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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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Literacy Boost 2009- Year 1 Report Malawi
The Literacy Boost program is an intervention focused on working with teachers and communities to improve children’s reading skills. In Malawi in 2009, the Save the Children Basic Education Team followed the reading skills development of 234 Standard 2 an
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Rewrite the Future Global Evaluation- Afghanistan Midterm Country Report
Rewrite the Future is a global programme and campaign by Save the Children that aims to bring quality education to children in countries affected by conflict. The global evaluation seeks to investigate how Save the Children’s project level interventions h
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Let our children teach us! A review of the role of education and knowledge in disaster risk reduction
This review examines good practices to reduce disaster risk through education, knowledge, and innovation, and focuses on activity in education, public risk awareness, training and research in order to meet two new initiatives to achieve this goal: the Act
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Think smart: Giving rural children access to basic education
This book is about Save the Children and the Amhara Regional Education Bureau’s approach to Alternative Basic Education (ABE) in the Amhara region, Ethiopia. Alternative Basic Education addresses the many obstacles rural children face when it comes to sch
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Promising rights- Introducing children´s rights in school
The book explores the experience of one primary school in trying to make the promises of rights a reality. It is an honest account that does not skirt around any hesitations and concerns that have arisen. But the general outcome is a positive one with sig
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Rewrite the Future. 43 million children are out of school because of conflict (short version)
43 million children living in countries around the world wrecked by war and armed conflict are being left without the chance to go to school. This report is part of Save the Children's five-year Rewrite the Future education initiative, which seeks to help
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The State of the right to education worldwide- Free or fee: 2006 Global report
Primary education is the focus of the report because the original reasons for declaring it to be each child’s birthright remain unchanged. Eighty years ago, the rule that governments should make education free and compulsory had been extrapolated from the
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Rewrite the future in Côte d'Ivoire, September 2006-2008
For the last decade, Côte d’Ivoire has experienced a socio-political crisis, which has had severe humanitarian consequences for children. Children’s enrollment and access to school have greatly declined, as did the quality of the education available due t
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Briefing from Global Initiative to end all corporal punishment of children [June 2008]
This report provides supplementary information on Uganda's first periodic report on the implementation of the CRC Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (OPAC). The Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children s
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Early childhood education: questions of quality.
This edition of Early Childhood Matters seeks to focus attention on how quality early childhood programmes can lay the foundations for quality primary education. Among the articles there is an overview of the complex topic of "quality" in early childhood