According to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), there are currently more than 25 million refugees worldwide. More than half of these are under the age of 18.
To raise awareness of this situation, the United Nations established World Refugee Day...
Register now for a webinar on June 26 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. focusing on Adapting EGRA to Include Sign Language. Join All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge (ACR GCD) for Development, Josh Josa, disability inclusive education portfolio lead at ...
“Early Literacy and Multilingual Education in South Asia,” a new report from UNICEF ROSA, analyzes the varying language situations in South Asia and the existing policies and practices regarding languages as the medium of instruction and as subjects in primary education curriculum. It outlines a set of research-driven...
On May 14, the Global Digital Library (GDL) launched a developer platform. The goal of the portal is to enable communities of developers, designers and content providers to reuse software, content and design elements from the GDL in new projects. GDL hopes that this open approach to...
Gender equality in education is a basic right and a prerequisite to build inclusive societies. Although notable progress has been made over the last 20 years, 16 million girls will never set foot in a classroom, according to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
With that in mind, UNESCO established a Prize for Girls’ and...
The LAC Reads Capacity Program is offering three free webinars focused on reading comprehension that will be offered in Spanish and are open to the public. The first one will be on May 17th and is focused on the Simple View of Reading as it relates to reading comprehension....
In early April, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) issued a new Policy Framework. Taking its direction from the U.S. National Security Strategy (NSS) and the Department of State and USAID Joint Strategic Plan (JSP), the Policy Framework translates the goals outlined in the NSS and JSP specifically...
Increasingly, educators are exploring ways of more effectively linking literacy and numeracy instruction. That interest was evident from the enthusiastic live and online audience that attended an event on April 12 hosted by the Global Reading Network (GRN) and the Basic Education Coalition spotlighting three authors of ...
Providing ongoing, classroom-based support to teachers is critically important to improving instruction—and student outcomes. Coaching in Early Grade Reading Programs: Evidence, Experiences and Recommendations, a new resource developed by Reading within Reach (REACH) in collaboration with the Global...
One of the main barriers to improving children’s reading skills is limited or no access to textbooks and reading materials. Restrictive copyrights limit how reading resources are used, shared or repurposed, which in turns limits the potential impact, reach and scalability of the materials. An open educational resource...
