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Over the past few years, STS has increased its focus on numeracy work.Read more

Literacy and numeracy are both strong predictors of academic success. Instructional programs for both deserve a quality evidence base for their design, delivery, and monitoring in the primary and secondary grades. This post is the second in a two-part series.Read more

Literacy and numeracy are both strong predictors of academic success. Instructional programs for both deserve a quality evidence base for their design, delivery, and monitoring in the primary and secondary grades. This post is the first in a two-part series.Read more

This week, members of STS’s staff are headed to San Francisco for the 2019 annual conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES). The conference will focus on “Education for Sustainability,” and STS is excited to add half a dozen presentations and panels to the dialogue. Our staff will be discussing a variety ofRead more

On Tuesday, March 12, STS’s Executive Director Candace Debnam met with the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs to advocate for basic education. Representing the Basic Education Coalition, Debnam appealed to the subcommittee for their continued support for international basic education—which, in addition to providing children with literacy,Read more

Recently, STS’s Measurement and Evaluation Specialist Fernanda Gándara co-authored an article with UMass Amherst’s Jennifer Randall for the Comparative Education Review. The article, “Assessing Mathematics Proficiency of Multilingual Students: The Case for Translanguaging in the Democratic Republic of the Congo” questions the current testing practices in international education when it comes to language. As FernandaRead more

Many of STS’s staff and board members got their start in international development as Peace Corps Volunteers. This week we join with all Returned Peace Corps Volunteers in Peace Corps Week to celebrate and reflect on all the ways that Peace Corps makes a difference at home and abroad.Read more

Today marks the first ever International Day of Education and offers the chance to reflect on the role education plays for peace and development around the globe. This year, STS celebrates efforts to bring quality education and assessment to the students of Mali through the USAID/Mali Selective Integrated Reading Activity (SIRA). SIRA, led by EDC,Read more

Photo: Focus group discussion with Grade 6 and 8 girls in the Wolaita Zone, SNNPR, Ethiopia In celebration of International Day of the Girl, STS is pleased to highlight our research supporting girls’ education in Ethiopia. Despite considerable progress in increasing girls’ access to education in Ethiopia, important barriers persist. One of the key challenges facingRead more

Photo Credit: Little Thinking Minds In celebration of International Literacy Day, STS will be sharing our mixed-methods evaluation approach as part of the webinar hosted by All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development on How Technology Can Transform Child Literacy in Developing Countries. STS will be discussing key lessons learned from the implementation ofRead more