https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenwald_School

For our Afghan allies, below are free education resources for Afghan students

1) CharityHelp’s Expanding Free Access to Offline Education Initiative, which will help other organizations convert obsolete personal computers into Linux-based educational information servers.

2) Afghan Education for a Better Tomorrow established a tele-education program in 2016 at University of Herat with more than 30 professors in US, Canada, and Australia. This program expanded with other universities before the Taliban took over.

3) Trust in Education’s (TIE’s) Computer Library YouTube Videos. They work with Khan Academy to provide educational videos that are accessible online and offline in Afghanistan. For more information, visit: Computer Library YouTube Videos

4) Khan Academy in Pashto Channel on Youtube organized by We Have Hope Foundation.

5) An eLibrary by Canadian Women for Afghan Women: Free and open educational resources for Afghanistan

6) Here is a Farsi version of Khan Academy: https://lnkd.in/ewrYUdcE

7) A new promo video by Khan Academy: Introducing Khan Academy Learnstorm 2019!, Aug 7, 2019

https://lnkd.in/enuwjZmS

8) Books for Afghanistan - Our mission is to give Hoopoe Books to as many Afghan school-age children, libraries, and adult literacy classes as we can; as well as audio versions of the stories and step-by-step Teacher Lesson Plans and Teacher Training.

9) Given below are some links from a page we created several years ago: https://lnkd.in/e3UqgRSM :

Khan Academy in Farsi - https://lnkd.in/ewrYUdcE Khan Academy Dari Videos - https://lnkd.in/ecwRT93g Khan Academy Lite (KALite) - https://lnkd.in/euk9di-p Wikipedia in English – School Education Edition - https://lnkd.in/ev5rjrY2 Wikipedia in Pashto - https://ps.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia in Persian - https://fa.wikipedia.org

10) The $15 million Global Learning XPRIZE challenged teams from around the world to develop open-source, scalable software that empowers children to teach themselves basic reading, writing, and arithmetic within 15 months. Here is a winner of this xPrize: https://onebillion.org/

Thanks to the Afghan-American Chamber of Commerce for compiling this list and to Edward Corcoran for sharing it. If you have friends or acquaintances in Afghanistan, please share it.

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• How can I help students who read the first part of a word and guess the rest? For instance, the word may be “participle,” but the reader may see “par” and pronounce. the word as though it were “parable.” Or “transaction” might be mistaken for “transition.”

••Have the student read a passage aloud. Tell the student when he or she has made such a mistake. Cover all but the last part of “participle” with a card of some kind. Ask the student to pronounce “ple.” If necessary, show another “ple” instance such as “He was not able to run.” Then move the card back to “ticiple.” Use something like “cider” as a hint if necessary. Move the card back to show “participle.” If there is still a problem, use “park the truck” as a hint.

••In a remedial reading course, graded reading materials will start with easier readings. Shorter mistaken words will start teaching students to slow down and sound unknown words out.

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