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Weakest Part of Poorly-Performing Educational Systems: An Argument for Focus on “Teaching at the Right Level” and Improved Foundation-Year Performance

July, 2017
n roughly thirty-five to forty countries that are expanding education very quickly, experts have noticed that learning problems originating in the earliest grades are showing as a massive...

Primary 1 Repetition and Pre-Primary Education in Uganda (Research Brief)

July, 2017
As a result of Universal Primary Education (UPE) and reform efforts, primary school enrollment in Uganda doubled from 2.9 million in 1995 to 5.8 million by 1998. By 2016, enrollment had reached...

Chichewa Rapid Automatic Naming (RAN) and Phonological Awareness: Exploring the Double-Deficit In Malawi

July, 2017
Do children with deficits in both rapid automatic naming (RAN) and phonological awareness in Chichewa experience more difficulty with reading growth than children with single or no deficits? To...

Social Behavior Change Communication to Increase Parental Engagement in Children’s Reading Practice: Baseline Report

July, 2017
The USAID/ Uganda Literacy Achievement and Retention Activity will implement an eight-week Social Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) pilot in Ssekanyonyi Coordinating Centre in Mityana district....

Repetition of Primary 1 and Pre-primary Education in Uganda

June, 2017
This paper describes a 2016 pilot study undertaken in Uganda to document the real repetition rate in Primary 1 classes and to examine the relationship between repetition in Primary 1 and...

Moving from pilot to scale in education: What does it take?

May, 2017
Presentation delivered at the ICT4D 2017 Conference in Hyderabad. Taking successful pilot projects to scale should be the goal of any pilot program; yet often projects address scale only as an...

Stumbling at the First Step: Efficiency implications of poor performance in the foundational first five years

May, 2017
This paper highlights patterns in school enrollment indicators that affect the efficiency and effectiveness of education systems in a set of low-income countries: those that have expanded access...

USAID/Uganda Literacy Achievement and Retention Activity Early Grade Reading Assessment Results EGRA Brief 001

May, 2017
Has reading achievement increased as a result of the USAID/Uganda Literacy Achievement and Retention Activity interventions? Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) data collected for the three...

Malawi National Reading Programme: STD 1 Teacher Training Facilitator’s Guide

April, 2017
The United States Agency for International Development, the Department for International Development and the government of Malawi, through the MoEST, are collaborating to implement a National...

Malawi NRP Std 1 Chichewa Teacher's Guide

April, 2017
The United States Agency for International Development, the Department for International Development and the government of Malawi, through the MoEST, are collaborating to implement a National...

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