Reading within Reach and the Global Reading Network thank everyone who participated in the Experts Meeting on Literacy and Learning for Students with Disabilities on May 1. The event discussed improving literacy learning outcomes for students with different types of disabilities and included panel discussions from experts in...
The Senior Early Childhood Education Manager for RTI International will have two primary areas of responsibility: 1) provide senior program and portfolio management for ECD projects, including technical development and supervision, technical assistance and project management; and 2) develop relationships, proposals and...
Room to Read is offering a webinar on “Setting Data-Driven Oral Reading Fluency Benchmarks Webinar” on May 16th at 9:00 a.m. Pacific/12:00 p.m. Eastern. The webinar will present newly published step-by-step guidance for practitioners and policymakers who are interested in tracking progress toward improving learning outcomes and...
All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development (ACR GCD), Pearson and Project Literacy recently announced two winners of its global Book Boost: Access for All Challenge, designed to spur innovation that optimizes the production process...
Scope of Work and Objective: Under this Scope of Work, the...
To help decrease the gender gap in technology use throughout the world, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched the WomenConnect Challenge—a global call for solutions to improve women’s participation in everyday life by meaningfully changing the ways women and girls access and use technology...
April 30 marks the deadline for organizations committed to the advancement of literacy to apply for the 2018 Library of Congress Literacy Awards. Created and supported by philanthropist David M. Rubenstein, the Literacy Awards Program is designed to broaden and stimulate public understanding of the essential role of literacy in...
The Global Digital Library (GDL) launched today with an event in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The GDL aims to promote early-grade literacy worldwide by making storybooks and other reading materials available in more than 100 languages by 2020. All GDL resources are free and available in digital and print-ready form. The Norwegian...
Even as technology revolutionizes the world, 1.7 billion women in low- and middle-income countries still do not own mobile phones, and the gap between the number of men and women using the Internet has grown steadily over the past three years. To help address this issue, USAID has launched the WomenConnect Challenge—a global...
Reminder: Sunday, April 15, marks the application deadline from a call for reading/literacy researchers. The Global Reading Network (GRN) and the Central American and Caribbean Early Literacy Network seek local reading/literacy researchers from five LAC countries to develop a long-term research proposal and...
