Education – IID

Evaluation of Sesame Workshop’s financial empowerment initiative

July 10, 2018

IID is conducting the evaluation of Sesame Workshop’s financial empowerment initiative, Dream, Save, Do: Financial Empowerment for Families. This initiative aims to create awareness among children and parents for the financial…

Transform libraries, transform lives

January 24, 2018

home, Library, LibraryP

The conversation on libraries is fast changing from frustrated musings to dreaming large, with a series of library modernization programs underway in Bangladesh, mentioned the speakers at a policy dialogue…

Documentation and Knowledge Sharing for Education Assessment Needed

December 13, 2017

Education, PAL Network, Participation

Education system is being assessed altogether through different measurement process, but lack of proper documentation leaves the assessors with a knowledge deficit. Learning sharing among the assessors would accelerate global…

Policy update needed for library resource management

December 7, 2017

Library, Policy Forum

Existing book collection and discarding policies, and delegation of financial power often limit the librarians from keeping the library resources up-to-date, said the experts at a Policy Forum in Dhaka.…

Keep the complex assessment of learning simple!

December 1, 2017

Education, Workshop

Assessing children’s learning requires a lot of critical consideration, and yet, keeping the process simple is key to an effective and scalable assessment—discussed the participants at a workshop in Lagos…

From assessment to action through teaching at the right level

November 17, 2017

Education, PAL Network

Despite having a high enrollment, children still continues to struggle with basic arithmetic and language skills. To address this learning crisis, Pratham India implemented teaching at the right level (TaRL)…

Assessing the assessors for learning outcome

November 11, 2017

Education

“Measuring progress in education through assessment is important, but it is high time that we emphasis on assessment of the assessments to understand whether education attainment is advancing forward”, IID’s…

Are grown-ups responsible for children’s apathy to reading?

October 8, 2017

Library, LibraryP, Policy Breakfast

Forcing children to focus only on text books, discouraging reading for pleasure, reduced parent-child engagement, not encouraging storytelling, are some of the ways adults are causing apathy among the children towards…

Adding new layers to local libraries will invite more readers

September 28, 2017

Library, Policy Forum, Policy Forum

Local libraries needs to upgrade and add new layers in order to invite more readers – said the policy forum attendees held this month at Chittagong. The participants of the…

Survey: People prefer more investment in education

August 24, 2017

Budget & Economy, Education, Research

When 5125 people were asked what they want the government to prioritize in the national budget, most of them answered with Education, followed by health, agriculture, transportation, and industrialization. 24…