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Education Week

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Education is often viewed as the "great equalizer," opening the door to economic opportunities and healthier and more fulfilling lives. Access to education gives women the tools they need to carve out better lives for themselves and for their families, empowers and engages at-risk youth, and gives workers the means to excel in the global economy.

Thanks to USAID programs, in Ghor Province, Afghanistan, women pack into classrooms and proudly read out loud for the first time. In Harare, Zimbabwe, street children don clean uniforms with pride. In electricity-starved rural Liberia, teens, mothers and their small children pack into new solar-powered classrooms at night after finishing a hard day's labor.

This week, in support of USAID's first ever Education Week, we are also reaffirming our commitment to achieving the Millennium Development Goals, most specifically, MDG 2-to achieve quality universal primary education by the year 2015.

At our 83 missions and in every corner of the globe, USAID is dedicated to extending hope and opportunity to millions across the developing world.

USAID's Approach

USAID supports a range of activities aimed at improving access to quality basic education in developing countries, with special emphasis on disadvantaged groups such as women and girls and those living in remote and under served areas.

USAID also works to ensure that improvements to education programs are sustainable through support for institutional reforms that improve the governance and accountability of education systems.

Measuring the effectiveness of school management systems and tracking learning outcomes is essential to assuring both the quality and sustainability of education programs. USAID has developed a number of innovative measurement tools, such as the Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA), Early Grade Math Assessment and Snapshot of School Management Effectiveness (SSME), that school administrators and teachers in more than 50 developing countries now use to boost student learning; target support to schools with particular needs; and develop teacher training programs and curricula.

USAID education programs support the Agency's commitment to the use of new technologies, approaches and methods to address human development needs. For example, in Tanzania, USAID supports an innovative program that allows teachers to download video content through mobile phones, which are connected to TVs in classrooms, providing a vast range of locally-developed or adapted educational content to remote schools and communities. New financing approaches include the use of USAID's Development Credit Authority (DCA) (pdf, 36kb) which mobilizes local private capital to extend credit to municipalities, schools, and students.

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