The Sindh Reading Program is one of three complementary USAID projects within the Sindh Basic Education Program (SBEP), a multi-faceted USAID initiative designed with the government of Sindh’s School Education and Literacy Department (SE&LD) to upgrade and implement basic education.
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To fulfill the goals in Afghanistan’s National Education Strategic Plan, the Ministry of Education is improving its services, procedures, and systems.
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Education in Afghanistan has progressed remarkably since 2001, with student enrollment increasing from 900,000 to more than 8 million.
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Because the strength of Indonesia’s education system is vital to its economic and social growth, the Indonesian government has focused on improving the country’s institutions of higher education.
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The Higher Education Leadership and Management project worked over its five years in close collaboration with State Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education (RISTEK- DIKTI) and partnered with 50 Indonesian higher education institutions (HEIs) to improve higher education capacity across the country.
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With research support from USAID Higher Education Leadership and Management Project , Indonesia’s University Muhammidiyah Malang shifted toward a student-centered learning approach and created an experimental “university farm”.
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Our education experts share our global experience at the 2017 Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society in Atlanta, Georgia.
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This short documentary film illustrates the concept of Formative Assessment, and how the USAID Sindh Reading Program is using this tool to transform the traditional public primary schools in Pakistan's Sindh province.
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To encourage a culture of reading in classrooms, the USAID Pakistan Sindh Reading Program used the “reading is thinking” approach, which embeds elements of critical thinking into weekly read-alouds.
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Chemonics is proud to participate in the 2016 Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) and present on its experience working in Georgia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Zambia.
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The Sindh Basic Education Program was a government-to-government initiative between the U.S. and Sindh governments, with the aim of improving reading scores of 450,000 grade 1 and 2 children in the province by 2019, among other objectives.
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The government in Pakistan’s Sindh province used results from a baseline survey of public schools to increase literacy rates and improve the quality of education.
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