In this talk, DFID Education Adviser Ed Barnett speaks to Luis Crouch, Head of the Global Good Practices team at the Global Partnership for Education, about the importance of early grade reading.
Luis explains why support to early grade reading is so important, how it can be improved and measured and how it may fit within a post 2015 agenda.
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Luis Crouch on the importance of early grade reading by DFID
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More about Luis
Luis Crouch recently joined the Secretariat of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) as head of its Global Good Practices team.
Prior to the GPE he worked with RTI International and The World Bank. He has worked on or studied some 20 countries in all regions of the world, but with a focus on Latin America, Southern and Eastern Africa, and Indonesia.
He is an education economist and has specialised in policy, decentralization, political economy of reform and education statistics.
More recently he has become interested in pedagogical and measurement issues, specifically early grade reading, in order to better understand the "supply side" of how education systems respond (or not) to incentives, an area he feels is neglected.
Working with many colleagues in donor agencies and NGOs, he has played an important role in galvanising support for the early grade reading agenda.