Low cost solutions for improving teaching and learning materials and education data
The Grand Challenge
Globally, 387 million children are functionally illiterate even after attending school.
Reading is the single most critical skill to learn in early education and the foundation for future learning, economic opportunity, and full participation in society. Yet in many countries, unacceptable numbers of children remain functionally illiterate after several years of formal education. Unless primary school systems can successfully build reading skills in children, increased enrollment will have little impact.
The Big Idea
Improving access to learning materials and quality education data.
All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development’s 2012 Grant Competition sourced low-cost solutions and approaches for disseminating high-quality early grade reading instruction and educational materials. Solutions also targeted improving the quality and accessibility of education data to facilitate data-driven decision making and transparency across the education system of a developing country or region.
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Influencing the Armenian education system by developing and testing a set of informal literacy assessments to better inform future literacy instruction
Competition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
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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.
Oligna Foundation for Human Development shares the ACR GCD-funded results of their project focused on teacher training to improve reading outcomes for children in Ghana.
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.
Pragya is piloting DEISPI, a tool to improve learning levels, instructional quality, school infrastructure & management, and educational policy planning.