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The inspires reflections on the power of education to equip individuals and communities navigate, understand and influence technological advancement. This year the focus is "AI and Education: Preserving Agency in a World of Automation.¡±

. The possibilities of using digital solutions to enhance teaching and learning, and to revolutionize educational processes bring opportunities and challenges. On #EducationDay, we explore how countries can leverage digital solutions to build equitable, relevant, and resilient education systems with a positive impact on learning outcomes. 

Empowering Adolescent Girls: The Agency to Navigate Digital Technologies

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Jan 22, 2025 -- Global experts discussed how digital technologies can bridge the gender divide, the potential risks they present for adolescent girls, and the critical role that education and digital literacy can play in mitigating those risks. The discussion highlighted effective practices and innovative solutions to empower adolescent girls to harness technology responsibly.

PUBLICATION: Digital Pathways for Education: Enabling Greater Impact for All

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EVENT: Report Launch 

How can countries leverage digital solutions to build equitable, relevant, and resilient education systems with a positive impact on learning outcomes? The event and publication address what policymakers can do when undertaking digital transformation reforms in education and skills development systems.

#StartTheStory with us!

To mark The International Day of Education on January 24, 2024, the hashtag  on social media highlighted the pivotal power that books, stories, and reading materials have in transforming lives and building better futures.

CALLING ALL READERS! What book made you a reader? #EducationDay is Jan 24.  To celebrate, share your favorite childhood book using #StartTheStory. Let's spark the joy of reading for all children everywhere!

Reading with Children Matters

However, only . Seventy percent of children in low- and middle-income countries are unable to read and understand an age-appropriate passage by age 10 (a situation we call learning poverty). Learning poverty wastes young peoples¡¯ potential, impacts future workforces and ultimately, erodes countries¡¯ economic competitiveness.

ľ¹ÏÓ°Ôº's Approach

Through the Read@Home initiative, the World Bank is working with governments and other partners in 18 countries so far to expand access to , reduce the cost of , and  from the most vulnerable households to engage with their children¡¯s learning.

In 2020, the World Bank, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, FCDO, UNICEF, and USAID launched the Accelerator Program which coordinates efforts across the partners to ensure that the countries in the Program are showing improvements in foundational skills at scale over the next three to five years.  The Accelerator Program acknowledges a global cohort of countries or sub-national entities that 1) demonstrate strong political and financial commitment to improved learning, 2) are willing to measure and monitor learning outcomes, and 3) have an investment plan to reduce learning poverty. 

ľ¹ÏÓ°Ôº is also working closely with UNICEF, UNESCO, FCDO, USAID, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and GPE as the  to advocate and provide technical support to ensure foundational learning.  ľ¹ÏÓ°Ôº works with these partners to promote and endorse the Commitment to Action on Foundational Learning, a global network of countries committed to halving the global share of children unable to read and understand a simple text by age 10 by 2030.