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Bringing the Bottom Billion into Basic Literacy

What tablet deployments in Ethiopia and rural America taught the RAVE-O team about how children learn to read.

Stephanie Gottwald, Robin Morris, Maryanne Wolf & Tinsley Galyean

Dec 1, 2017

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The paper describing Curious Learning, the global-literacy initiative Wolf co-founded — tablets with research-based literacy apps for children with no schools, in Ethiopia, rural America, and beyond.

Close to one billion people in the world do not have basic literacy skills.
— Gottwald, Morris, Wolf & Galyean, 2017

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