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● projectCompleted · national · 2014
Tusome Early Grade Reading Activity
National early grade literacy program of Kenya's Ministry of Education with RTI International and USAID funding (2014-2022).
illustrative atlas image · Artturi Jalli / UnsplashMOMinistry of Education (Kenya)RIRTI InternationalBPBenjamin Piper
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01 The context
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.
02 How it works
03 What it stands on
Evidence level
Own experience
Grounded in published theory
Documented evidence elsewhere
Independently evaluated here
Peer-reviewed research documents this project: the strongest evidence level in the atlas.
The evidence 2 ›
EvidenceScaling up successfully: Lessons from Kenya's Tusome national literacy programJournal of Educational Change 19: 293-321 (Springer) · 2018
EvidenceTusome External Evaluation - Endline ReportNORC at the University of Chicago / USAID · 2020