Video of the Week: Education in Ghana
USAID Ghana is committed to cutting illiteracy in half in the next 5 years. Read more >>
View ArticleEducation: The Most Powerful Weapon for Changing the World
Education is the key to eliminating gender inequality, to reducing poverty, to creating a sustainable planet, to preventing needless deaths and illness, and to fostering peace. Read more >>
View ArticleDigitizing Education
In celebration of Women's History month, USAID interviews Catherine Oliver Smith, COO and Co-Founder of Urban Planet Mobile, aimed to develop and distribute digital education worldwide. Read more >>
View ArticleRecording in Progress: Audio Boosts Volume of Education Materials in Rwanda
This year, 90 primary schools in Rwanda will receive first- and second-grade materials for English, Kinyarwanda and math. Read more >>
View Article1,000 Days to Reach the Millennium Development Goals
What USAID is doing to ensure that by 2015 children everywhere will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling. Read more >>
View ArticleIncreasing Access to Education in Northern Nigeria
Through its Northern Education Initiative, USAID is working in Nigeria to strengthen state and local governments’ capacity to deliver basic education service. Read more >>
View ArticleIn Congo, Helping Children Catch Up in the Classroom
International Rescue Committee and USAID are helping 1,100 boys and girls in Congo catch up on their studies at the primary level and work toward admissions to secondary school. Read more >>
View ArticleImproving Education in South Sudan
With USAID assistance, primary school enrollment in South Sudan has increased from approximately 300,000 students in 2000 to 1.4 million in 2012. Read more >>
View ArticleNew Learn-to-Read Method in Yemen Shows Early Promise
USAID's partnership with Yemen’s Ministry of Education and local governments is making education more accessible to Yemeni children. Read more >>
View ArticleEducate Girls, Develop Nations
Education is a silver bullet for empowering women and girls worldwide. Read more >>
View ArticleUSAID in the News
A review of USAID’s top news highlights for week of July 8, 2013. Read more >>
View ArticleCreating Opportunity in Nepal through Education for Income Generation Project
Meet Sitara, whose story is one example of USAID’s Education for Income Generation (EIG) project's impact on thousands of disadvantaged youths. Read more >>
View ArticlePreparing Youth for Employment
Guest blogger from Education Development Center discusses how youth in Mali are prepared for employed, armed with literacy and numeracy skills. Read more >>
View ArticleSouth Sudan Educators Acquire Skills to Teach the New Nation
September 8 was International Literacy Day. Read a story of how USAID is advancing education in South Sudan. Read more >>
View ArticleLiberia: “When We Learn to Read, We Can Read to Learn!”
USAID's Education team in Liberia joins in Liberia's first national reading campaign. Read more >>
View ArticleTesting Readers in the Early Grades in Pakistan
Early Grade Reading Assessment is an essential tool in our educational toolbox as USAID invests in teaching 100 million children to read in 39 countries around the world.
View ArticleIn Zambia, a Refuge to Learn
No matter what country, a free library is the soul of a community. It protects the past, preserves the present and assures the future. In order to teach a million Zambian children to read better, they...
View ArticleA Thank You to our Partners in Literacy
More and more, through our Agency’s ambitious reform agenda, USAID Forward, we create innovative partnerships with the private sector and work in tandem with governments and ministries to identify...
View ArticleYoung Storytellers and the Power of Literacy
In Rwanda, a land with an oral history as rich and beautiful as the hills that roll across it, one tale is special. The story “Old Woman and a Hyena” was written by an 11-year-old boy who won a...
View ArticleCommunity Empowerment in Guatemala Through Improved Literacy
A young man in Guatemala who twice tried to cross the border illegally into the United States reflects on his renewed hope for his hometown, a transformation he underwent while volunteering to help...
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