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Read guidance, learning summaries, evidence trends, and country reflections from USAID and its partners.

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Children outside classrooms of a school in Honduras.
Systems Strengthening

Resource Roundup: Seven Ways to Strengthen Systems for Literacy Outcomes

USAID’s vision is a world where partner country education systems enable all children and youth to acquire the education and skills needed to be productive members of society.
September 19, 2023
CATALYZE EduFinance South Africa (Kaizenvest / GROW Educare Centres)
Reading & Literacy

Four Ways CATALYZE Improves Learning Outcomes and Expands Access to Quality Basic Education through Innovative Blended Finance Solutions

Despite significant increases in literacy rates since the first International Literacy Day in 1967, children from vulnerable and marginalized families continue to demonstrate significantly lower literacy rates.
October 12, 2023
children standing in a circle around a person holding a microphone up to a child, both smiling at a person holding a camera
Disability Inclusive Education
May 10, 2023

Lessons Learned: Prioritizing the Perspectives of Local Disabled Person’s Organizations on Education Evaluation and Research

The Multi-Country Study on Inclusive Education (MCSIE) is the first major, multi-country effort by USAID to investigate what works when supporting children with disabilities as they learn to read. The purpose of the study is to derive lessons to sustainably advance teaching and learning outcomes for children with disabilities in varying contexts.
Creative Associates for All Children Reading
Information and Communication Technology
May 16, 2022

CIES 2022: Spotlight on Distance Learning

The 2022 Comparative & International Education Society Conference brought together researchers, analysts, practitioners, and students in the field of international education to explore a wide range of educational issues.
Syrian Teacher Teaching Children to Read in Jordan
Disability Inclusive Education
May 10, 2022

What We’re Learning in Social and Emotional Learning

This series is intended for Education Officers in USAID partner countries and implementing partners who are designing and managing new activities, evaluations, and/or research efforts.
Cambodia
Reading & Literacy
August 23, 2021

Navigating Monitoring and Evaluation of Distance Learning Programs

Determining reach and engagement is critical before outcomes can be assessed. Additionally, collecting contextual and demographic data is critical to understanding the distance learning context and reach, engagement, and outcome measures.
A young girl with a walker
Disability Inclusive Education
July 14, 2021

How to Collect Data on Disability

In recent years, there has been a paradigm shift in the way we perceive disability.
A first grade class in the El Hadji Amadou Cissé school in Kaolack Commune, March 2020
Systems Strengthening
February 3, 2021

How to Use USAID Performance Data: Three Takeaways from the 2019 Education Data Briefs

The USAID Data and Evidence for Education Programs (DEEP) team recently worked with DDI/EDU to develop a series of education data briefs, covering disability-inclusive education, foundational skills, higher education, and youth workforce development.
In Haut-Katanga, a mother ensures access to the best signal on her phone while her children listen to a radio lesson
Reading & Literacy
November 20, 2020

The DRC’s Accelere!1 Pilots Remote Reading Program During COVID-19

In the DRC, ACCELERE!1 (A!1), a USAID and UKAID funded project implemented by Chemonics, has launched “Lecture pour la vie,” a local language interactive audio instruction radio pilot program in response to COVID-19 school closures.
Photo: On November 14, 2019, the United States and the Ministry of Public Education launched an early grade reading and early grade math assessment pilot in Uzbekistan.
Reading & Literacy
October 21, 2020

Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) for Language Issues in Reading Programs

Language-focused MERL activities play an important role in gathering evidence and garnering support for adopting languages children use and understand outside of school for reading instruction.