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- Begin With Books
- Big Ideas@Berkeley 2014/15 Prize
- Big Ideas@Berkeley 2015/16 Prize
- Book Boost: Access for All Challenge
- EduApp4Syria Prize
- Enabling Writers Prize
- Grant Competition 2011
- Grant Competition 2014
- Leaders for Literacy
- No Lost Generation Summit Tech Prize
- Ready2Read Challenge
- Sign On For Literacy Prize
- Technology to Support Education in Crises & Conflict Prize
- Tracking & Tracing Books Prize
- UnrestrICTed Challenge
… results in Grant Competition 2011 and India.
The unexpected way that Bollywood could help millions
Yashoda Lakshman Keni, a resident in rural India, hops on the bus to a nearby village to visit relatives. Three years ago, she might not have been able to make that trip to see her family.What caused Maharashtra’s leap in reading?
Something very encouraging just happened in the Early Grade Reading (EGR) landscape of Maharashtra, India’s second largest state with a population of 120 million people.TEDxCERN: Reading for a billion, with Bollywood
PlanetRead President Brij Kothari asks from the TEDxCERN stage, "Imagine for a moment that you wake up and were unable to read, what would be the consequences in your life?"Closed Captioning Gives Literacy a Boost
Sometimes I turn on my TV and the closed-captioning feature has been activated. I can’t find the button to turn it off, so I think: It won’t distract me.Facilitating Reading Acquisition in Multilingual Environments in India (FRAME-India) Final Report
ACR GCD-funded American Institutes for Research investigates how biliteracy skills are acquired in Kannada or Telugu and English languages in Southern India.Bollywood Karaoke and Same Language Subtitling to Promote Literacy
While I have not seen any research evidence to support this particular contention, I have been in a number of presentations over the years about the 'Finnish success in education.'First Winners of Library of Congress Literacy Awards Announced
Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has chosen the winners of the 2013 Library of Congress Literacy Awards, a new program originated and sponsored by philanthropist David M. Rubenstein.Pratham / Usha V. Rane
Pratham Education Foundation shares their ACR GCD-funded innovation to launch monthly learning camps to improve reading, writing and speaking skills among children in India.The Bollywood Solution: Making Reading ‘Inescapable’
Much of television programming aimed at young people has earned a dubious reputation for turning the minds of the world’s children into wastelands.Alphabet Boot Camp
At 8 a.m. in the Indian state of Bihar, 25 children gather in a playing field. A bright yellow banner bearing the Pratham Education Foundation’s logo is prominently rolled out at the site.Gurgaon-based NGO bags prestigious USAID recognition
All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development recognized Pragya for its innovative project addressing the specific educational problems of tribal/border/hilly/forested (TBHF) districts.Sesame Workshop Initiatives India Wins Award At All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge For Development
The innovation – Learn to Read, Read to Learn – by Sesame Workshop Initiatives India (SWIIPLC) was announced a winner by USAID, AusAID and World Vision.Pragya / Gargi Banerji
Pragya shares their ACR GCD-funded innovation to pilot new information systems for gathering stakeholder education data in the Himalayan region of India.Sesame Workshop / Sashwati Banerjee
Sesame Workshop India shares their ACR GCD-funded innovation to provide engaging classroom content and low-cost tablets to improve reading skills in Hindi and English.PlanetRead / Brij Kothari
PlanetRead shares their ACR GCD-funded innovation to reinforce reading skills learned in school by adding same language subtitling (SLS) to audio-visual content in India.American Institutes for Research / Pooja Reddy
American Institutes for Research shares their ACR GCD-funded approach for identifying the strongest predictors of multilingual development for children in India.
