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  • Grant Competition (2011)

    Improving teaching and learning materials and education data
  • // February 20, 2018

    International Mother Language Day: ACR GCD Reflects on Progress, Challenges for Global Literacy

    As the world marks International Mother Language Day, ACR GCD celebrates the progress made and champions the need for acceleration to support books, resources, and training in every language.
  • Across

    Equipping primary school teachers with solar-powered digital audio players to develop teachers’ skills and tutor students

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    Grant Competition 2011

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  • DataWinners

    An integrated, mobile data collection and communication service that uses smartphones and tablets to transform paper forms into digital questionnaires, send group text messages and more.
  • Africa Educational Trust

    Increasing teacher to student contact hours, textbook availability, teacher training and teacher instruction

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    Grant Competition 2011

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  • American Institutes for Research

    Contributing to empirical evidence on when a child is 'ready' to transition from learning one language to another

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    Grant Competition 2011

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  • The Asia Foundation

    Improving parent-school and parent-child relationships through the development of relevant reading materials for students and teaching aids for parents and educators

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    Grant Competition 2011

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  • Center for Civil Integration and Inter-Ethnic Relations

    Improving first and second language reading skills of ethnic minority primary school children by supplying teachers and students with early grade, bilingual educational materials

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    Grant Competition 2011

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  • Drakkar Ltd.

    Encouraging a culture of reading by providing Kinyarwanda storybooks, school-based mentors, and training to teachers

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    Grant Competition 2011

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  • // BBC // September 20, 2017

    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.
  • ECo-Development

    Increasing the availability of culturally-responsive and context-relevant multilingual education materials in mother tongue languages for primary schools in Bandarban District, Bangladesh

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    Grant Competition 2011

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  • École Supérieure d’Infotronique d’Haïti

    Eliminate social barriers to learning by introducing interactive whiteboards into classrooms and creating digital content for learning in Creole

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    Grant Competition 2011

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  • Education Development Center, Inc.

    Improving instruction and reading outcomes by enabling teachers to submit student reading test data immediately using mobile phones

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    Grant Competition 2011

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  • FHI 360

    Developing instruction and learning materials in mother tongue languages and engaging family and community support in reading.

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    Grant Competition 2011

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  • Friends of Matènwa

    Creating and distributing children-authored books in Creole to address the shortage of Creole reading materials and to foster a love of reading in children

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    Grant Competition 2011

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  • Georgia State University

    Increasing the reading achievement levels of young learners through implementation of research-based, context-relevant literacy curricula and materials

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    Grant Competition 2011

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  • Human Network International

    Building DataWinners, a cloud-based communication service that collects and shares educational data through mobile phones

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    Grant Competition 2011

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  • Initiative Africa

    Improving student reading and classroom instruction by collecting data from early grade reading assessments

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    Grant Competition 2011

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  • Lubuto Library Partners

    Creating high-quality, mother-tongue materials through LubutoLiteracy, a low-cost digital platform that used local teachers to build lessons in seven languages

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    Grant Competition 2011

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  • Molteno Institute for Language and Literacy

    Using easy, computer-based instruction for literacy learning in primary schools, Bridges to the Future - South Africa, to help students hear, identify and manipulate phonemes

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    Grant Competition 2011

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