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Jeffery McManus; Mico Rudasingwa; Ewoud Nijhof; Kenna Mokobi; Serigne Fallou Deme; James Kiawoin; Felipe Acero Garay; Leah Mwai; Cassandre Pignon – Education Economics, 2025
Children in Liberia receive 2.2 learning-adjusted years of schooling, one of the lowest levels of educational attainment in the world. We study one approach to address low enrollment and low rates of learning: a 10-month accelerated learning program run by the Luminos Fund to help out-of-school children catch up to grade level. We conducted a…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Out of School Youth, Acceleration (Education), Educational Attainment
Woods-Stevens, Augurie Ezioma – ProQuest LLC, 2019
In 1989, Liberia entered into a Civil War that was devastating to the population, which has not recovered since. The country's infrastructure was significantly destroyed. Eighty percent of schools were non-functional. The illiteracy rate was at 80% in 2017. The teacher population at the primary and secondary levels was 26,000, but, 65% of them had…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Reading Instruction, Elementary School Students
Gove, Amber, Ed.; Wetterberg, Anna, Ed. – RTI International, 2011
This book highlights the experience of Liberia in both assessing and improving reading in primary schools. As a result of an Early Grade Reading Assessment, the Ministry of Education and partners, including the United States Agency for International Development, came together to identify and develop strategies for improving reading in schools.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Beginning Reading, Reading Tests