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COVID-19-related school closures are pushing countries off track from achieving their learning goals. This paper builds … on the concept of learning poverty and draws on axiomatic properties from social choice literature to propose and … motivate a distribution-sensitive measures of learning poverty. Numerical, empirical, and practical reasons for the relevance …
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Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, notes that Bangladesh offers us many lessons in ending extreme poverty, and one of the most important is that innovation plays a critical role. Bangladesh recognized decades ago that empowering women is essential to ending extreme poverty. Leaders...
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Over the last several years, a new concept has been introduced to college curriculum called "Service Learning". In an … experiential learning experience. During the last phase, students volunteered in a variety of assignments, which exposed them to … surprising result was a profound impact on the students and a vivid example of the power that "Service Learning" has to change …
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All children should be able to read by age 10. Reading is a gateway for learning as the child progresses through school … - and conversely, an inability to read constrains opportunities for further learning. Reading proficiency is also critical … for foundational learning in other subjects. In low- and middle-income countries, more than half the children cannot read …
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