In our community-based work, we’d like to strengthen support for children’s reading outside of schools. We know that there are many ways that parents, community members and children themselves can support children in learning how to read. Often, it is...
How change can happen – Save the Children’s experience. This book is about how non-governmental organisations (NGOs) can help school systems in developing countries become more inclusive. It shares experience of developing tools and approaches that have improved education for...
How the language used in schools threatens the achievement of Education For All. Why are children’s learning levels in many countries so far below expectations? Why do so many children fail to complete school, despite efforts to improve the quality...
How to help schools in low- and middle-income countries respond to children’s language needs. These guidelines are based on a research and learning project supported by CfBT Education. In many multilingual countries, teachers, families and governments know that the way language is used in education is...
2010 MDG Summit High-level Round-table 22 September, 2010, United Nations, New York The set of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) formulated in 2000 with targets for 2015 crystallized the growing consensus which emerged during the 1990s, namely, that poverty reduction and...