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This Handbook for Literacy Lesson Planning is designed to be used as a resource for education stakeholders seeking to … design evidence-aligned early grade literacy programs. It describes the different subskills involved in learning to read …
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percent of women are illiterate. This paper presents a model of literacy. It shows that the main determinants of worldwide … literacy are enrollment rates, average years of schooling of adults, and life expectancy at birth. Income has a weak nonlinear … effect, negatively affecting literacy until a threshold level of per-capita income of about …
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The goal of this study is to assess if literacy practices in the highest-performing education systems in Brazil are …-based literacy instruction that can be helpful for low and middle-income countries. This report is guided by the following questions … for designing and implementing literacy policies in a governmental position or supporting governments. The report mainly …
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This paper estimates country-specific costs and benefits of scaling up key nutrition investments in Nigeria. Building on the methodology established in the global report scaling up nutrition: what will it cost? Authors first estimate the costs and benefits of a nationwide scale up of ten...
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"Expanding and improving basic education in developing countries requires, at a minimum, teachers who are present in the classroom and motivated to teach, but this essential input is often missing. This paper describes the findings of a series of recent World Bank and other studies on teacher...
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"Climate scientists have identified global warming as the most important environmental issue of our time, but it has taken over 20 years for the problem to penetrate the public discourse in even the most superficial manner. While some nations have done better than others, no nation has...
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"A variety of theories of skill formation suggest that investments in schooling and other dimensions of human capital will have lower returns if children do not have adequate levels of cognitive and social skills at an early age. This paper analyzes the impact of a randomized cash transfer...
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