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Basic Education
There is a global learning crisis. More than half of the world’s school-aged children - 617 million - are not learning. Moreover, around 1 in 4 children and youth live in countries affected by crisis where their learning is interrupted.
Save the Children’s goal is that all children attend good quality inclusive basic education and demonstrate relevant learning outcomes.
To achieve this we work with schools, families and communities to ensure that children learn to read and write within the first three years of primary education in safe and happy learning spaces. This means having enough spaces for children to learn, and that those spaces are physically safe, support children’s well-being, promote active learning, and engage parents and communities. Additionally, we work with donors, governments, and other stakeholders to ensure policy and practice explicitly address barriers to learning, and factors driving exclusion from and within basic education.
Save the Children defines basic education as the compulsory years of education in a particular country. In addition to this, Save the Children focuses on alternative, accelerated and remedial education, which may not be defined as ‘compulsory’ but which is critical in providing learning opportunities to the most deprived and marginalised children.
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RecommendedEducation Cannot Wait
Persistent underfunding of education, coupled with inadequate capacity has combined to form a toxic cocktail that is denying far too many children the opportunity to learn. Reaching the children who are educationally left behind because of this mix of neg
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RecommendedFinancing Learning for Every Last Child
Sustainable Development Goal 4 commits the world to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.” World leaders have promised to ensure every girl and boy will learn from a quality education. If th
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RecommendedEnding Education and Child Poverty in Europe
Children across Europe tell us that what poverty means for them is going to school on an empty stomach, being stressed because parents can’t pay the rent, spending winter in cold homes and schools, not having enough money to buy a book and not daring to h
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COVID-19 Pandemic Lessons from Asia Pacific
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused enormous tragedy and disrupted the lives of hundreds of millions of children and their families in the Asia-Pacific and beyond. Despite significant responses by governments and the heroic efforts of medical staff and other
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Adjusting Food Distribution Standard Operating Procedures in the Context of the COVID-19 Outbreak Ver 2
These interim recommendations for school and food distribution are useful for COVID-19 response, when looking at phase 3 of a large scale response, working with social service systems and child protection actors to ensure continuity of critical services t
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Collaborative Change: Leveraging international IDELA partnerships to benefit young children
Achieving access, equity and quality in early childhood programs is hindered by a lack of robust evidence from implementation research and impact evaluations, knowledge brokering and collaborative partnerships between communities of research, practice and
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The Road to 2021
With 100 years of global experience and over 50 years of work in India, Save the Children 2019-21 Strategic Plan builds on past achievements and learning. India has a critical role to play in achieving a world where no children die from preventable causes
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Innovations Used in the Advancing the Right to Read Program in Rwanda
This paper focus on innovative adaptations that were made to Advancing the Right to Read programming (including peer learning circles and model teachers of Kinyarwanda) and discuss: why they resulted, what impact they had and what they have taught Save t
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Ready to Learn: Common approaches
Ready to Learn is Save the Children's program that helps 3 to 6-year-old children develop foundational literacy and math skills. The program is an evidence-driven, play-based response to the global learning crisis in which millions of children are not gai
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Numeracy Boost: Common approaches
Numeracy Boost is Save the Children's program to support the development of math skills of children in the early primary grades, both inside and outside the classroom. Maths is an integral component of foundational learning and research has shown that chi
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Boostons la Lecture et Boostons les Mathématiques Manuel
Literacy Boost is an innovative, evidence-based approach to improving literacy learning outcomes, and is increasing the reading skills of underperforming children in a growing number of program sites across the globe. The toolkit is a useful resource to a
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Attacks on Education in Afghanistan
This GCPEA briefing paper examines the increasing rates of children who are out of school in Afghanistan, despite the government's efforts to expand quality education. The ongoing conflict, increasing insecurity, and, specifically, attacks on education ar