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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
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Youth Volunteers Can Contribute To Significant Reading Gains: Evidence From The HYVALL Project In Senegal
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.The Potential of Technology to Level the Playing Field in Global Education
ACR GCD presents at the Association for Childhood Education International's "Breakthroughs in Education: Innovations in Equity, Access and Quality" virtual conference.Four students carry ‘Big Idea’ to Haiti
Sora Edwards-Thro has a history of performing volunteer work in Haiti. This summer, she and a trio of fellow William & Mary students are taking advantage of previously unavailable opportunities to...Big idea boosts children’s reading
A new technology aimed at addressing the reading needs of children in marginalised areas, has landed Monash second place in the Big Ideas@Berkeley contest.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...Becoming Mrs. Van Allen
Christie Vilsack, senior advisor for international education at USAID, takes the TEDxFoggyBottom stage to explain how we can all help make a difference to improve education around the world.SMS Brings Local Tales To Zambian School Children
A mobile reading project that will bring reading to Zambian children who often have no access to books at home is one of 14 winners of a literacy innovation competition.All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development Announces Winners of Literacy Innovations Competition
Fourteen winning innovations represent the most promising, creative and impactful solutions in literacy and were chosen from a competitive process that elicited 213 proposals from 50 countries.Alpha Test Report
Overview of alpha field testing of software applications funded by ACR GCD's Tracking and Tracing Books prize competition to support the delivery of textbooks to schools in rural Malawi.Makhalidwe Athu: A mobile storytelling innovation for early-grade reading in Zambia
ACR GCD-funded innovator Creative Associates provides a brief overview of its Makhalidwe Athu (Our Way of Staying) early grade reading project in rural Zambia.Makhalidwe Athu: Creative’s mStories Model
ACR GCD-funded innovator Creative Associates shares how it developed its innovative approach for creating mobile stories to address literacy challenges in rural Zambia.Mobile reading project brings local tales home
ACR GCD-funded innovator Creative Associates shares more about its 18-month Makhalidwe Athu project to improve the reading skills of more than 1,200 students in Zambia's eastern province.Oeuvre Malienne d’aide à l’Enfance du Sahel / Boureima Toure
ACR GCD-funded innovator Oeuvre Malienne dÕaide lÕEnfance du Sahel shares their innovation to provide families in Mali access to print and digital books through mobile devices and local librariesEVOKE: Leaders for Literacy
EVOKE: Leaders for Literacy takes a game-based learning platform, originally developed by the World Bank, and uses it to improve child literacy by leveraging youth as social innovators.ACR GCD and Beyond Access Announce Partnership
ACR GCD announces a partnership with the Beyond Access initiative, a consortium of 11 international organizations funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.ACR GCD Unveils $6 Million Literacy Grant and Prize Competition
ACR GCD announces a second round of funding to unearth and champion technologies for improving child literacy.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.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.Qué Funciona para el Desarrollo / Arturo Aguilar
ACR GCD-funded innovator Qué Funciona para el Desarrollo shares their innovation to create community libraries for children and workshops to help support children's reading in Mexico City.Creative Associates International / Ayan Kishore
ACR GCD-funded innovator Creative Associates shares their innovation to mobilize community members to submit local stories through SMS message to improve children's reading skills in Zambia.
