Penelope Bender

USAID Education Advisor, Goal 1 Lead: Improving the Reading Skills of 100 Million Students!

[Sara Ruto @SaraRuto_]

Learnings from 11 years of @asercentre Persistence, continuity, working at scale is important if we are to reach all children @palnetworkHQ

[Global Partnership for Education @GPforEducation]

Mother tongues matter amid English-language push in Asia - @UNESCO Bangkok blog https://t.co/H8jHz3CHly

[Penelope Bender @penelopeabender]

Pratham/PAL: "if you're really interested in all children, you have to go where children are, not where they should be." @palnetworkHQ

[Penelope Bender @penelopeabender]

Rukmini Banerji of Pratham telling the story of civil society assessment. From assessment to action! @palnetworkHQ #poderparalagente

[Penelope Bender @penelopeabender]

PAL civil society assessment network: 600K + volunteers have assessed 7.5 million + children in 30 languages to improve learning

[Penelope Bender @penelopeabender]

Happy to be here: PAL network civil society/household-level assessment orgs. Great to see the growth of this network. 13 countries now!

[Sara Ruto @SaraRuto_]

The 5th PAL Network Meeting now underway in Xalapa Mexico bringing together participants from 20 countries uniting the global South & North

[Penelope Bender @penelopeabender]

"Ending corruption in book procurement = lower prices = more books for more children" ADEA DKR #globalbookalliance @usaideducation @ADEAnet

[Penelope Bender @penelopeabender]

Textbooks [and reading books] lead to sustainable development--https://t.co/HjixMQoNio #globalbookalliance @USAIDEducation @ADEAnet

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Economies of scale drive reductions in cost-private sector publishing #globalbookalliance @USAIDEducation @ADEAnet

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Livres dans les cartables des eleves "Books in children's school bags" from promise to reality #globalbookalliance @USAIDEducation @ADEAnet

[Penelope Bender @penelopeabender]

29% tax on paper imports in Guinea contributes to book scarcity. Time for change? #globalbookalliance @USAIDEducation @ADEAnet

[Penelope Bender @penelopeabender]

"Even though the books say "sale forbidden," they're all in the market." Tackling corruption with GBA. ADEA/Dakar @USAIDEducation @ADEAnet

[Penelope Bender @penelopeabender]

250 million children can't read. Let's make it zero. #globalbookalliance @USAIDEducation @ADEAnet

[Penelope Bender @penelopeabender]

Guinea, Mali, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire together to transform the book chain. #globalbookalliance ADEA/USAID in Dakar @USAIDEducation @ADEAnet

[Penelope Bender @penelopeabender]

Enjoying the National Book Festival in Washington and hoping to enjoy Festivals in Zambia, Haiti, Cambodia and everywhere soon!

[Penelope Bender @penelopeabender]

Happy International Literacy Day!

[Penelope Bender @penelopeabender]

USAID and The Global Book Alliance announce the first Call.https://t.co/76qxrt0cR8