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New Learn-to-Read Method in Yemen Shows Early Promise

Posted by  on Thursday, April 18th 2013     
Students at the Aisha School. Photo credit: Emily Walker, USAID

USAID’s partnership with Yemen’s Ministry of Education and local governments is making education more accessible to Yemeni children. Read more >>

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El Salvador Makes the Grade in Universal Primary Education

Posted by  on Wednesday, September 26th 2012     

I live in the Zaragoza region, one of the poorest areas in central El Salvador. We have limited economic development opportunities for our people, yet one of the highest rates of population density in the country.

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Improving Teachers’ Pay, Investing in the Future

Posted by  on Friday, November 18th 2011     

The end of 2010 was marked by teachers’ strikes in Kyrgyzstan, as the nation’s educators took to the streets to protest their miserable wages.  The average monthly salary was $75 despite the fact that, by Kyrgyz law, the minimum teacher’s salary should be no less than the average national salary of $144 per month. International [...]

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