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To better serve the needs of all students in all learning environments, USAID is looking to prototype—that is, design, develop, and test for proof-of-concept and acceptability—an early grade reading assessment for students who are deaf and hard-of-hearing to be asynchronously administered with remote assessors. STS will work with RTI International and Resources for the Blind,Read more

Over a five-year period, the Transforming Teacher Education Activity will give more than 60 Zambian teacher educators the skills to deliver effective instruction to 9,000 college and university students studying to become primary grade teachers. Funded by the United Agency for International Development and implemented by Florida State University, in partnership with School-to-School International andRead more

All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development (ACR GCD), established in 2011 as a partnership between the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), World Vision and the Australian Government, advances EdTech innovation and research to improve reading outcomes for marginalized children in low-resource contexts. ACR GCD is an ongoing series of competitions that leveragesRead more

USAID’s Gabay: Strengthening Inclusive Education for Blind/Deaf Children project, implemented in partnership with the Department of Education and Resources for Blind, Inc., will work with local governments in the provinces of Batangas, Sorsogon, and Southern Leyte, to identify children from kindergarten to grade three with vision and hearing impairments, so that they can receive literacyRead more

Link Education International (formerly Link Community Development) is implementing the Transformational Empowerment of Adolescent Marginalised Girls in Malawi (TEAM Girl Malawi) project; an FCDO (formerly DFID) funded, ‘Girls’ Education Challenge’ initiative through the ‘Leave No Girl Behind’ funding window. TEAM Girl Malawi will operate in communities in two rural districts and one urban district inRead more

Funded by USAID, World Vision, and the Australian Government, the All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development (ACR GCD) initiative leveraged technology-based innovations to improve early grade reading outcomes in developing countries. Round two grant projects—which focused on mother tongue instruction and reading materials, family and community engagement, and children with disabilities—were implemented inRead more