Tag: Pencils of promise

Changing the world with literacy and numeracy: This guy’s $25 education start up is now building a new school every 90 hours

Jul 27, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in Creativity, Disruption, Education, Education delivery model, Educator’s Journey, Improve teaching practice, Kids, Leadership, Literacy and Numeracy, Low literacy levels, Low numeracy levels, Meaning, Video

This is literacy and numeracy literally changing the world… the developing world. They are now building a new school every 90 hours.The reason: 250 million primary-aged children lack basic reading writing, and maths skills and these guys intend to do something about it. It takes US$25 to educate a child and US$25,000 to build an…