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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 Books in Underserved Languages and India.
Play.Connect.Learn
Read ebooks and play literacy games in the Marathi language of India on this smartphone-based app developed by Sesame Workshop India.Bookshare
Benetech is an online library of accessible content for people with print disabilities.- Blog // April 2, 2018
The Book Desert: Authors, publishers and innovators have key role in solving global literacy challenge
This crisis, dubbed the “book desert,” was the focus of our panel discussion at the International Children’s Book Fair in Bologna, Italy. StoryWeaver
Pratham Books' open-source digital library offers digital books in multiple languages and formats.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.AniBooks
PlanetRead's collection of leveled AniBooks (animated stories) with Same-Language Subtitling offered in more than 50 languages.Sesame Workshop Evaluation Report
An evaluation report on the results of the ACR GCD-funded "Play.Connect.Learn" project, implemented by Sesame Workshop in India.Benetech Evaluation Report
An evaluation report on the results of the ACR GCD-funded "Bookshare India" project, implemented by Beneficent Technologies (Benetech) in India.Mother Tongue An Essential
A Marathi speaking 4 year old girl named Rashi starts kindergarten. Her mother, trying to choose the program that will best support Rashi’s learning of English, puts her in an all-English classroom.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.11 Tech Innovations Changing Global Education
A giant shipping container now provides computers to students in remote locations. The simplest cell phone records and distributes local stories to improve literacy rates.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.Getting millions to learn: The impact of Sesame Street around the world
Sesame Workshop’s projects occupy the unique intersection of early childhood education and media. What had started as an educational television program more than 40 years ago...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.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.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.Sesame Workshop India Trust / Anuragini Nagar
ACR GCD-funded innovator Sesame Workshop India shares their innovation to provide families with a mobile app based on the Marathi-language version of Sesame Street to improve children's reading.
