Presentations | 25 March 2017
USAID PRIORITAS Program to Improve the Quality of Basic Education
This presentation describes the USAID/Indonesia PRIORTIAS program (2012-2017), including the development of leveled reading books for 13,000 schools.
In the News and Impact Stories | 25 March 2017
Literacy Award presented to 19 USAID-partner regencies, municipalities
Referencing the USAID/PRIORITAS project.
Presentations | 23 March 2017
Platforms to Reach Children in Early Childhood
Presentation at CIES March 2017 (Atlanta).
Presentations | 22 March 2017
Tayari’s Longitudinal Evaluation Midline Results
Presentation delivered at CIES 2017 (Atlanta). The Tayari intervention’s randomized controlled trial design is structured to allow for causal inference of Tayari’s impact on school readiness.
Presentations | 20 March 2017
Beyond the Early Grade Mathematics Assessment: Informing Practice
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Presentations | 16 March 2017
Relationships Between Coach Support and Teacher Instructional Practices Preliminary Findings from the Nigeria Reading and Access Research Activity (RARA)
Presentation delivered at CIES2017 (Atlanta).
Presentations | 15 March 2017
Prospects and Challenges in Scaling up Mother Tongue Curriculum Development and Implementation in Multilingual Environment: Experiences from Ethiopia
Presentation delivered at CIES 2017 (Atlanta). A number of linguistically diverse countries are embarked on providing their children with Mother Tongue (MT) instruction to enhance educational quality.
Presentations | 14 March 2017
The Power of Instructional Support: Using Existing Systems to Change Teacher Behavior in Kenya
Presentation delivered at CIES 2017 (Atlanta). Instructional support is essential in the process of creating and supporting instructional change. Educational quality improvement is the elusive goal for many recent literacy improvement programs and strategies.
Publications | 3 March 2017
International education is a broken field: Can ubuntu education bring solutions?
Article published in the International Review of Education. February 2016, Volume 62, Issue 1, pp 101–111. Published abstract: "Ubuntu is an African philosophy of human kindness; applying it in the Global South would fundamentally alter the design of the education sector.
Literature Reviews and Desk Studies | 21 February 2017
Early Primary Mathematics Education in Arab Countries of the Middle East and North Africa
MENA countries are facing significant challenges in providing access to quality education for children in the early grades.