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.
Prize Partners
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Improving parent-school and parent-child relationships through the development of relevant reading materials for students and teaching aids for parents and educators
Increasing the availability of culturally-responsive and context-relevant multilingual education materials in mother tongue languages for primary schools in Bandarban District, Bangladesh
Increasing the reading achievement levels of young learners through implementation of research-based, context-relevant literacy curricula and materials
Improving reading skills of children with special needs using by providing teaching and learning materials and assessment tools to teachers and resources and training for families
Developing reading benchmarks for new reading curriculum and a rapid reading response system (including the first literacy app in Khmer), to address reading difficulties for children in Cambodia
On International Literacy Day, actor and World Vision spokesman Hugh Jackman voiced his support for efforts to improve literacy for children in developing countries through ACR GCD.
ACR GCD-funded Education Development Center shares results of the "Harnessing Youth Volunteers as Literacy Leaders" project in Senegal on children's reading fluency and comprehension.
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.
The innovation – Learn to Read, Read to Learn – by Sesame Workshop Initiatives India (SWIIPLC) was announced a winner by USAID, AusAID and World Vision.