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Tusome Early Grade Reading Activity

📍 Kenya · 2014 · Ministry of Education (Kenya)

Scale

local

subnational

national

systemic

Description

National early grade literacy program of Kenya's Ministry of Education with RTI International and USAID funding (2014-2022). It scaled the structured pedagogy proven in the PRIMR pilot to all public primary schools: teacher guides, 1:1 books, tablet-based coaching and EGRA assessment. It reached more than 10 million students in grades 1-3 in English and Kiswahili.

Linked evidence

▦Scaling up successfully: Lessons from Kenya's Tusome national literacy programJournal of Educational Change 19: 293-321 (Springer) · 2018Evidence ▦Tusome External Evaluation - Endline ReportNORC at the University of Chicago / USAID · 2020Evidence