LAGOS, Nigeria, Sept. 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — An innovative teaching methodology that delivers “learning gains among the greatest ever measured” is being embraced by a growing number of African and Indian governments — ahead of the global education summit tackling what has been dubbed the greatest learning crisis since 100 years.
The Rwandan government is the latest to launch a national education transformation program – RwandaFACILITIES – with the aim of making the country’s entire basic education system competitive worldwide.
Global leaders gather in New York for the UN Transforming Education Summit – Convened in response to the global education crisis. A “Solutions Day” focuses on the few replicable programs – like RwandaEQUIP – that are already effecting large-scale transformations.
“Transforming education is a key priority for the Government of Rwanda and bold investments have been made to that end,” said Gaspard Twagirayezu, Minister of State for Primary and Secondary Education.
RwandaEQUIP is powered by NewGlobe’s innovative methodology, confirmed in a landmark study achieve learning gains in the top 1% of those ever rigorously studied at scale in emerging markets.
The study, led by Professor Michael Kremer2019 Nobel laureate, estimates children living in underserved communities learn over 53% more NewGlobe supported schools compared to students in other schools.
The results are a validation of NewGlobe’s integrated learning system, used by the Government of Rwanda and others across Africa and India to support one million students today, and counting every year.
The study is based on a randomized controlled trial of more than 10,000 students from poor socio-economic backgrounds in Kenya.
- After two years, elementary school students using NewGlobe methods are almost a full additional year of learning ahead of students at other schools.
- For preschoolers, two years of learning NewGlobe methods equals a year and a half…
