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Be at the forefront of the
next big shift in education
so urgently needed.
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learning. of education globally.
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Source: World Bank
Let’s Step up the Act
Dear Changemaker, foundational skills, and how quickly we teach
them. Rote methods of teaching and learning
It is past half-time for SDG4. Progress is slow. are holding hostage enormous potential of
The problems that were before the Covid with the children, many of whom drop out of
52% of children unable to read, remains schools, and suffer indignation the rest of
largely unchanged. Many countries have yeat their lives.
to reach the Pre-Covid levels. A quality
education is implausible without first How will the world convert its well-intentioned
addressing The problem of foundational resolves into reality, like those made last
literacy and numeracy (FLN). September at the UN Transforming Education
Summit in New York? What will the pathway to
universal literacy be? When will foundational
A Crisis of Pedagogy skills include climate change as their
essential component now before COP 28?
The much ignored fact is the crises of
pedagogy. The crisis in learning is a crisis of What new pedagogies and policies will it take
pedagogy; both how we teach the to deliver foundational skills within weeks and
months, and not years?