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Singapore: Enhancing Kindergarten Education

The Singapore Ministry of Education has announced several program initiatives geared towards enhancing social mobility by reaching out to weaker students and decreasing economic disparities in access to education. Educators an...
by Alice Formwalt
 
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Educators Say Government Must Focus on ‘Literate Nepal Campaign’

Nepali education experts state that the national campaign to eradicate illiteracy by 2015 will not succeed if the government doesn’t start incorporating it as part of their main agenda. According to the Nepal Living Stand...
by Alice Formwalt
 
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Laos: Local People Strive to Foster a Love of Reading.

Lao PDR is a country whose poverty has been shackled by literacy efforts since its independence in 1953, yet examples of local people rising up to tackle this issue are now easily found. Since 2006, Big Brother Mouse, an organ...
by Ashleigh Brown
 
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How to Test Reading Skills in Any Language – Part III: Assessment Start to Finish

This is Part III of a three-part series on developing tests for reading skills in non-major languages. Be sure to check out Part I: Decoding, Part II: Fluency and Comprehension, and How to Determine Text Difficulty in Any La...
by Michael Jones
 
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How to Test Reading Skills in Any Language – Part II: Fluency and Comprehension

This is Part II of a three-part series on developing tests for reading skills in non-major languages. Be sure to check out Part I: Decoding, Part III: Assessment Start to Finish and How to Determine Text Difficulty in Any Lan...
by Michael Jones
 
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How to Determine Text Difficulty in Any Language

This article can be seen as an intermission for the series How to Test Reading Skills in Any Language. In order to choose appropriate texts for comprehension assessment, or even fully use the new data you’ve collected by...
by Michael Jones
 
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How to Test Reading Skills in Any Language – Part I: Decoding

This is Part I of a three-part series on developing tests for reading skills in non-major languages. Also check out Part II: Fluency and Comprehension, Part III: Assessment Start to Finish, and How to Determine Text Difficulty...
by Michael Jones
 
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From Smartclass to Education Cities: India Plans for IT Education Boom

According to recent reports, more and more Indian technology companies plan to fuel virtual classroom growth across the country. For example, Educomp Solutions is a pioneer in this field, having launched the curriculum-building...
by Lauren Riggs
 
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Afghan National Security Force Works to Boost Literacy

Members of the Afghan National Security Force (ANSF) are undertaking a huge project: they are boosting their literacy as an organization. Since 2010, they have been working to increase literacy internally as roughly 95% of thos...
by Susie Hufford
 
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