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Transforming Education in Sierra Leone Continues with Geospatial DataThis blog was originally posted on GPE Education for All on March 04, 2021 by David Moinina Sengeh, Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary Education, Sierra Leone, and Alina Game. A teacher computes students' grades for their…
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Voices from Sierra Leone: The real experiences of girls with disabilities at schoolRead the blog posted on Sightsavers on December 2020
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Shifting mindsets to support disability-inclusive educationThis blog was written by Hanna Alaasutari, and Quentin Wodon. It was originally posted on Education for Global Development on December 3, 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to rethink how to promote learning and resilience in education…
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Overloaded: Families With Children Who Have Special Needs Are Bearing an Especially Heavy Weight, And Support Is NeededThis blog was written by the Center for Translational Neuroscience at the University of Oregon | Transformative Neuroscience for Social Change. It was originally posted on Medium. Due to the pandemic, families with children who have special…
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Making Learning Accessible to All in NepalBirendra Giri, a visually impaired student from Nepal, took his 12th-grade exam this month. The exams had been postponed for seven months due to COVID-19, and Birendra is worried he was not well-prepared. “I did not have any Braille books at home,"…
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Examining Disability Inclusion in India’s New National Education PolicyThis blog was written by Tanushree Sarkar, a disabled woman and doctoral student in the Community Research and Action program at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. She has a Master’s degree in Social and Cultural Psychology from the London School of…
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Empowering girls with disabilities through radical inclusion during and beyond COVID-19: Marie’s storyPhoto: Marie types braille notes while listening to the national education programme on radio. (Photo Credit: Idrissa Kanjay, Sightsavers) This blog was written by Eric Musa, Inclusive Education Project Officer, Sightsavers Sierra Leone, in…
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Every Learner Matters: Unpacking the learning crisis for children with disabilitiesAcross the world, the number of children with disabilities is growing. Increased awareness regarding learning, as well as invisible disabilities such as learning disabilities, are changing the composition of our classrooms. Better screening and…
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Emerging from COVID-19 pandemic: A social inclusion approach to educating learners with disabilitiesThis blog was written by Charlotte McClain-Nhlapo, Global Disability Advisor, World Bank and Anna Cristina D’Addio, Senior Policy Analyst at the GEM Report. It was originally published on the World Education Blog on 19 October 2020. The onset…
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How to Reach Children with Disabilities During School ClosuresThis blog was written by Guy Le Fanu, Global Technical Lead for Education at Sightsavers and was originally published on the Devex website on 28 July 2020. The world is experiencing one of the biggest disruptions in the history of…
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