Early Reading Skills in Rural Peru: Children in Remote Communities Beat the Odds |
| | In the hills of the rural community of Ccochapata, Cusco in Peru, lies a small, isolated bilingual education center. Tomasa Ayllone is the sole teacher of the Centro Educativo Ccochapata and every day she faces approximately twelve children of varying ages from nearby indigenous communities, who walk long distances to school at dawn. They come to learn how to read and write in Quechua, their native tongue, and also to learn Spanish. Read More > |
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| Fall out from the "Big Bang" Approach to Universal Primary Education: The case of Uganda |
| | More that 100 students packed into one classroom, sitting on the floor due to the absence of desks, lacking reading and writing materials, and led by one teacher, is a harsh, yet common scene in the Bweyale village in Northern Uganda. The Bweyale Primary School, the biggest in the Masindi district, has an enrollment of approximately 2,598 students crammed in 17 classrooms, sharing 29 teachers. Read More > |
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In 2003 Ghanaian children completing nine years of basic education scored higher on tests of math and English than those completing 10 years of basic education 15 years before (IEG 2004); improvement was observed for children from households of all income levels, although greater improvement was found in better-off households. During approximately the same period (1980 to 2000) the percent of children aged 15 and above who had attended school rose from 75 to 90 percent. 
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