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Earlier this month, we touched on how can teachers and schools get better data on learners with disabilities, and some key findings on STS’s work on the All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development project. On October 31, STS’s former Deputy Director of Research and Evaluation Anne Laesecke presented findings from the study atRead more

How can teachers and schools get better data on learners with disabilities? Through All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development, USAID commissioned STS to study the validity of a disability measurement tool to address just that. The tool, known as the Child Functioning Module–Teacher Version (CFM-TV), builds on existing questionnaires developed by the WashingtonRead more

Funded by the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) McGovern-Dole Food for Education program, the All Pikin for Learn project (APFL) strives to reduce hunger by providing nutritious meals at its intervention schools, and take-home rations to pupils and teachers. By reducing hunger, APFL hopes to improve literacy and primary education within the Koinadugu andRead more

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), literature about factors influencing the relationship between attendance and gender gaps in educational achievement is sparse. Yet, in a recent article in Social Sciences & Humanities Open, STS’s Anne Laesecke and Fernanda Gándara are adding new research to the canon.Read more

Last spring, USAID’s 2021 CLA Case Competition reviewed 80 qualifying case studies that explore ways USAID staff and partners use CLA approaches to achieve better development outcomes. This fall, they announced the winners and finalists.Read more

Our field knows that girls across the globe have greater difficulty than boys in accessing quality education. Today’s International Day of the Girl—commemorated with the theme Digital Generation. Our Generation.—highlights the technological gender gap. Girls have more difficulty accessing the internet, using and owning fewer devices, and are less likely to pursue careers in tech.1Read more

The occasion of International Literacy Day 2021 and its theme “Literacy for a human-centred recovery: Narrowing the digital divide” gives the global community an opportunity to reflect on COVID-19’s impact on our goals of quality education and universal literacy—particularly for those facing intersecting disadvantages, such as girls. The generation of gender-integrated data can play aRead more

STS remains one of USAID’s largest providers of EGRAs and EGMAs. At the same time, recent work has allowed us to couple our student assessments with qualitative research services to understand the “whys” and “hows” of trends in education.Read more

Earlier this month STS joined with the FHI 360, Juarez and Associates, and RTI International to share our experiences learning and adapting on reading programs during COVID-19.Read more