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South Asia’s progress in tracking basic numeracy with a new assessment
By Steffi Elizabeth Thomas, Senior Research Associate, Pratham Education Foundation-ASER Centre, India and Waqas Imran, Data Analyst, Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA), Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), Pakistan There has been a global shift in focus towards the quality of education under … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Literacy, monitoring, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged learning, learning assessments, learning outcomes, literacy, numeracy, target 4.6
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Act now to reduce the impact of COVID-19 on the cost of achieving SDG4
Next week, finance ministers are being convened by the United Nations Secretary-General to look at financing in the era of COVID-19 and beyond. It is critical that they see education as key to the recovery from the effects of the … Continue reading
Singing from the same song sheet – Growing momentum across the disability movement to adopt a comprehensive definition of inclusive education to achieve SDG 4
By Ana Lucia Arellano, Chair, IDA and Manos Antoninis, Director, GEM Report Countries committed to achieve inclusive education by 2030 and yet almost a quarter of a billion are still out of school. Of these, children with disabilities are 2.5 … Continue reading
Posted in disability, Inclusion, Uncategorized
Tagged 2020 GEM Report, disability, Inclusion
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Why the world urgently needs a global plan to get all children safely back to school
By Hollie Warren, Head of Education: Save the Children The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated more than ever that global crises require global solutions. In April, faced with a global health emergency like no other, the international community came together in … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, child marriage, Out-of-school children, Uncategorized
Tagged aid, aid to education, coronavirus, covid19, out of school children
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Preparing for the new normal in Pakistan amid COVID 19 – A case for accelerated learning
By Hamza Sarfraz, Policy Researcher and Zain ul Abidin, Programme Specialist at Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi Several months after it first hit globally, governments and experts across the world have now finally begun to register the long-term consequences of the COVID-19 crisis. Education … Continue reading
Posted in Developing countries, Disaster preparedness, Equality, Equity, Gender, Inclusion, Uncategorized
Tagged coronavirus, covid19, girls, girls' education, Inclusion, Pakistan
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The winning One Big Idea on inclusion and education submitted by youth
Back in May, the GEM Report asked youth around the world to submit their One Big Idea to achieve inclusion in education in the ten years left in the decade of action towards 2030 – the deadline for the Agenda for Sustainable Development. We received … Continue reading
Posted in disability, Inclusion, Uncategorized, Youth
Tagged 2020 GEM Report, 2020 Youth Report, disability, Inclusion, inclusive education, tanzania, youth, youth day
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Open letter from the world’s youth calling for more inclusive schools when they re-open
Covid-19 brought about an education crisis, fuelled by deep pre-existing inequalities, many of which will have been exacerbated with schools closed around the world. The evidence and stories in the Youth version of the new 2020 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, Youth
Tagged 2020 GEM Report, 2020 Youth Report, Inclusion, young people, youth day
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Which are the biggest aid donors to education?
The recent new policy paper by the GEM Report shows that aid to each of the three education levels – basic, secondary and upper secondary education – has grown in the latest annual release of data from 2018. The last … Continue reading
How much aid is spent on education and where does it go?
English / Español While the main message of our new policy paper on the latest figures of levels of aid to education is that COVID-19 is a serious threat to aid recovery, it would be a shame not to give greater … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Basic education, Donors, Secondary school
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Creating inclusive learning environments for students with learning differences from marginalized communities
By Rachel Brody, Global Director, Programmatic Partnerships and Inclusive Education, Teach For All Inclusive education is at the core of our collective vision at Teach For All—a world where educators, policymakers, parents, and students are working together to ensure that … Continue reading
Posted in Inclusion, Learning
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