{"product_id":"9781119408628","title":"Progress toward a Literate World: Early Reading Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Number 155","description":"In order to work toward eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, the United Nations Millennium Development Goals significantly include universal primary education, gender equality, and empowering women. Effective early literacy instruction plays a critical role in achieving these goals. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom around the globe, this issue presents evidence-based, culturally sensitive and cost-effective practices in reading instruction and intervention in the early grades. Not only will this issue heighten awareness of the challenges faced but it will provide valuable information to help guide and improve diverse global education programs and research, especially in developing regions and for children living in poverty or disadvantage in all nations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresenting several experiences from small- and large-scale reading improvement programs, it:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eFocuses on low- and middle-income countries,\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDescribes challenges in implementing, studying, and scaling them up,\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eInforms expectations on how quickly and easily reading performance can change, and\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides results and evidence of effectiveness.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis is the 155th volume in this Jossey-Bass series \u003cb\u003eNew Directions for Child and Adolescent Development\u003c\/b\u003e. Its mission is to provide scientific and scholarly presentations on cutting edge issues and concepts in this subject area. Each volume focuses on a specific new direction or research topic and is edited by experts from that field.","brand":"Wiley, John \u0026 Sons, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47078502301936,"sku":"9781119408628","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781119408628_p0.jpg?v=1763697203","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781119408628","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}