International Day of Education - January 24

Learning for Life: Celebrating the Power of Education

Why January 24 Matters and How You Can Support Education All Year Long Every January 24, people around the globe pause to celebrate the International Day of Education, a joyful reminder of how transformative learning can be for individuals, communities, and all of humanity. This special day is about far more than marking a date […]

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Literacy for a Billion

PlanetRead aims to help everyone around the globe read in their native language. How? With same language subtitling (SLS). PlanetRead and the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad developed the methodology which, according to the non-profit’s website, has “doubled the number of functional readers among primary school children” in India. Illiteracy is a global crisis. […]

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LearnMoney to Promote Financial Literacy

Why is it that most high schools don’t teach financial literacy? Most young people who go to school take classes in math or economics, but many don’t know the first thing about how money works in the world, how to earn or make money, or how to manage it. Having recognized this shortcoming, one foundation is promoting financial […]

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Literacy First with First Book

What’s the best way to improve literacy? Access to books! And that is what First Book does. First Book is a social enterprise that provides books to low-income school systems. Since it was founded in 1992, the non-profit organization has distributed more than 120 million free and low-cost books in thousands of communities in the United States and […]

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