The Ministry of Education in partnership with USAID has launched a 5-year $71 million project to improve the reading performance of 2.8 million primary pupils.
The project, which is called ‘Partnership for Education: learning’, is aimed at supporting the government of Ghana to reach its reading goal which is 80% of children being able to read at primary 3.
[contextly_sidebar id=”4S3L5F6ixC3nTujO4F6SoKBXuR1MAFy9″]The project was necessitated by the 2014 early grade reading assessment which revealed alarming statistics that most pupils in Ghana are performing poorly in reading and numeracy.
According to the assessment report, only 2% of primary pupils could read.
In view of this, the Ministry of Education through this $71 million project wants to increase the number from 2% to 80%.
The first year of implementation will see a partnership between the Ministry of Education, the Ghana Education Service (GES) and the local organizations and educators in the regions and districts to finalize the Ghana Reading Action Plan (G-RAP).
51,000 teachers will be trained under this project and the project will take a ‘learning by doing’ approach in which the learning team will work closely with the staff of the Education Ministry and GES.
This will be the roadmap Ghana will use to achieve reading excellence in mother tongues and English, to influence existing strengths and to increase the capacity of these two institutions to support reading excellence on a national scale.
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By: Efua Idan Osam /citifmonline.com/Ghana