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What if You Never Had a Teacher?

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Join the Global Action Week: ‘Every Child Needs a Teacher’ How different would your life be if you had never had a teacher? Would you be able to find a job? Would you be able to keep yourself and your family safe? Would you survive? Most of us who grew up in the developed world cannot … [Read more...]

Soumaila Learns to Read

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View our All Children Learning Report, and Join Our Global Efforts to Help All Children Learn and Grow I want to share with you a very special—and very personal—report on how you can help millions of children learn and grow. First, take a look at our wonderful new All Children Learning … [Read more...]

Interview with HRH Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands about Children’s Literacy

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In March 2012, HRH Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands, UNESCO Special Envoy on Literacy for Development joined the Global Partnership for Education-sponsored All Children Reading Workshops in Kigali, Rwanda. She sat down for an interview with GPE Staff and shared her views on children's … [Read more...]

Turning dreams into reality: The Global Partnership’s work on early grade math education

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Rose looked up as a plane flew over her school and smiled.  “I want to be a pilot when I grow up,” she said.  Rose and I were standing outside her school in Kibera, a slum in Nairobi and the second largest slum in Africa.  An estimated one million people within a 2.5 square kilometer radius … [Read more...]

Financing for education: It’s not (just) about the money

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Last week the Global Partnership for Education allocated seven grants totaling $168 million to support the implementation of national education plans in Afghanistan, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Moldova, Mongolia and Timor Leste. This new financing for education will bring concrete results, … [Read more...]