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The Tayari pre-primary program in Kenya: Getting children ready for primary school. Outcome evaluation baseline report.

October, 2016
This report describes the baseline findings of an external evaluation of the Tayari pre-primary school programme. Tayari is an early childhood development and education intervention funded by the...

The First 1,000 Days and Beyond: Integrated Approaches to Early Childhood Development (Video recording)

October, 2016
In October 2016, experts from RTI International, USAID, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation participated in a panel discussion examining how...

Scale-Up of Early Grade Reading Programs

October, 2016
In response to the growing need to improve learning outcomes, USAID's 2011 Education Strategy focused on improving the teaching and learning of reading in early grades. Its goal of 100 million...

Local Education Monitoring Approach (LEMA) Toolkit

October, 2016
This manual was created at the request of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). It is a tool to guide individuals who are implementing a pilot application in locations...

Malawi Social and Behavior Change Communications Pilot: Endline Report

October, 2016
With funding from the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) Office for Economic Growth, Education, and the Environment (E3), the Education Data for Decision Making (EdData...

Conceptual Framework for Measuring School-Related Gender-Based Violence

October, 2016
This conceptual framework and toolkit for measuring SRGBV has been commissioned by the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) Bureau for Africa, Office of Sustainable Development,...

Boys' Underachievement in Education: A Review of the Literature with a focus on Reading in the Early Years

September, 2016
Noticing a pattern of consistent underperformance of boys in reading in many of the EGRA studies that implemented across the world over the past 4 years, USAID commissioned this literature review...

Reading the script: How the scripts and writing systems of Ethiopian languages relate to letter and word identification

September, 2016
Article published in Writing Systems Research. Published Abstract: Reading research suggests that script type and writing systems have a relationship with children’s ability to recognise letters,...

Implementing Mother Tongue Instruction in the Real World: Results from a Medium-Scale Randomized Controlled Trial in Kenya

September, 2016
Article published in Comparative Education Review. Published abstract: Research in sub-Saharan Africa investigating the effect of mother tongue (MT) literacy instruction at medium scale is...

Incentives to teach, incentives to read: A pilot of symbolic incentives for teachers and students in Jordan

September, 2016
Motivation is key to behavior change in teaching and learning processes. Motivated teachers are thought to be more likely to be willing to experiment with different instructional approaches in the...

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