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

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Reading & Literacy

The Urgent Need to Focus on Foundational Skills

By the time the pandemic will be over, learning poverty will most probably rise by at least 10 percent as the impacts of school closures, lost learning hours, and increased dropout rates take their toll.
November 5, 2021
Lebanon
Education in Crisis and Conflict

Resilience in Return to Learning

Each of the case studies examines, describes, and analyzes the specific localized processes and decision-making of education system stakeholders from March 2020 to April 2021.
November 5, 2021
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.
West Africa Regional Conference
Higher Education
June 7, 2021

How the VSFS Internship is Advancing Higher Education Storytelling at USAID

The Center for Education Higher Education VSFS internship is structured in two parts: one, a group project, and two, an individual project. This structure allows interns to gain experience publishing work both individually and collaboratively.
Four people stand together with one person speaking into a microphone.
Youth Workforce Development
April 28, 2021

Co-creation Can Create Space for Collaboration that Strengthens Program Design, Partnerships, and Outcomes

Over the past ten years, since the launch of the Youth in Development Policy, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) regularly demonstrates its commitment to engage young people as partners in development.
A first grade class in the El Hadji Amadou Cissé school in Kaolack Commune, March 2020
Reading & Literacy
March 12, 2021

How To Generate and Use Internationally-Comparable Learning Assessment Data

USAID has made significant progress in establishing an approach to linking country-level learning assessments to global proficiency expectations so countries can set appropriate targets for achieving outcomes in early grade literacy and math.
Youths studying at the Learning Resource Center in Buchanan, Liberia.
Education Finance
February 23, 2021

Engaging Non-State Schools

The USAID Center for Education has developed six guidelines in the Good Practice Brief on Engaging Non-State Schools to inform agency stakeholders on incorporating non-state schools.
Charles Makamo, a participant of the Innovation Scholars Program, and his design team test their innovation at Standard Bank in Lilongwe, Malawi with end-users.
Higher Education
February 11, 2021

The Resilience of Higher Education Institutions During COVID-19: Lessons from Malawi, Philippines, and Senegal

Higher education institutions must continually adapt to mitigate the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. These three case studies show how three universities served as central actors in crisis response and in locally-led development.
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.
Manija practices reading in Braille with her teacher Roziya during a home visit.
Disability Inclusive Education
December 15, 2020

Accessible to All: Creating Learning Materials for Children with Disabilities in Cambodia, Kenya, Rwanda, and Tajikistan

Here are some examples from Cambodia, Kenya, Rwanda, and Tajikistan that show how good practices in the provision of accessible learning materials are being put into practice during COVID-19.