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Background
USAID/India has contracted Panagora Group to provide monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) services to generate learning inputs for the implementation of the new Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS). Panagora will conduct an ex-post performance evaluation of a USAID India funded education program.
Despite free access to education and good student enrollment rates in India, the quality of education remains low and reading gains in the early grades are not yet at acceptable levels. Less than 50 percent of grade five students are able to read a grade two level text, and too many Indian primary school students are not acquiring reading skills at the appropriate rate. As a result, they drop out of school early or enter adulthood either illiterate or with extremely poor reading abilities. Teacher education is not rigorous enough to effectively prepare teachers for the classroom and includes little or no training in early grade reading pedagogy. Similarly, principals and other school administrators receive inadequate training, and school administration and the quality of education suffer as a direct result. The project goal was to build strong foundation of emergent and early literacy competencies in students, outreaching more than 100,000 unique students, in selected blocks of Rajasthan, Maharashtra, and Karnataka. The project aimed to achieve the following objectives:
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