Resources

Despite successes in improving access to primary education, the Malawi education system has struggled to produce high levels of learning. The country has consistently ranked at or near the bottom...

The Malawi National Reading Program (NRP) is the country's flagship education program aimed at improving the reading skills of all Malawian learners in Standards 1 to 4. USAID supports the NRP by...

The presentation summarizes a paper by Tim Slade and Luis Crouch on the measurement of learning inequality before and after a successful reading project. The paper concludes that at least for the...

This guide addresses the lack of appropriate, useful disability screening and identification systems and services as countries look to educate all students in inclusive settings. Specifically,...

In 2009 the Philippines Department of Education issued Order No. 74, “Institutionalizing Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE),” calling for the use of the learners’ mother tongues...

The traditional face-to-face (FTF) survey method cannot accommodate the privacy needed to mitigate the effect of social-desirability bias, particularly with the most sensitive topics such as...

The current study sought to test the stability of the new classroom observation tool that was developed by the initiative, and to reveal the extent of consistency among educational supervisors in...

This study looks at the impact of first language (L1, or “mother tongue”) complexity on reading achievement in the Philippines using Grade 3 Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) data collected in...

This study explores the extent to which mother-tongue-based multilingual education (MTB-MLE), as implemented at scale in the Philippines, is having an impact on students’ reading and writing...

The USAID/Uganda School Health and Reading Program (SHRP) works through existing Ministry systems to provide reading instruction in 12 local languages and English to over 3,000 primary schools. A...