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Governments worldwide are increasingly achieving large-scale gains in foundational literacy and numeracy through sustained, system-led reforms. While approaches vary, some shared ingredients underpin ...

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2nd Foundational Literacy and Numeracy Assessment Report | 2026

Foundational learning changes lives. A one standard deviation improvement in literacy can raise individual earnings by 25-30%.

At the launch of the Reading and Literacy Strategy 2026–30, reading was framed as fundamental to the entire schooling experience. The notion that reading is the air that we breathe captures this succi...

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Education is a universal public good that can shape individual lives and societies as a whole. It underpins income, health, productivity, equality, social cohesion, and the capacity to adapt and remai...

Millions of children in low- and middle-income countries attend school without learning to read, with ineffective teaching methods driving a global learning crisis. New global evidence demonstrates th...

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A landmark partnership will deploy responsible AI and proven EdTech solutions to help strengthen early-grade literacy and numeracy across sub-Saharan Africa.

As African governments confront declining donor funding and a persistent learning crisis, the Gates Foundation has made foundational learning its top education priority. Benjamin Piper, Director of Gl...

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This report is grounded in the Science of reading, a vast, multidisciplinary body of research on how children learn to read and how best to teach reading. Drawing from .

Senegal’s experiment with bilingual education is showing how teaching children in the languages they speak at home can boost learning.