She Gives Children One Year to Catch Up. They Cover Three.
About this episode
Caitlin Baron discusses her innovative approach to helping children catch up on their education in a year.
Imagine a child, nine years old, who has never once held a pencil or opened a book. Not because she doesn’t want to learn, but because poverty or conflict or displacement slammed the schoolhouse door before she ever reached it. Across Africa, that is the reality for 80 million children. And once they fall behind, most education systems simply move on without them. My next guest refused to accept that. Caitlin Baron built something most education systems never bothered to create — a way back in. One intensive year in which children cover three years of learning and walk into a classroom with kids their own age. The evidence says it works. A new book, The Luminos Method , lays out exactly how. It’s Caitlin Baron on The Business of Giving.
People in this episode
Host: The Business of Giving
Guest: Caitlin Baron
Topics covered
- education
- child development
- poverty
- learning methods
- Africa
Keywords
- education
- children
- learning
- poverty
- Caitlin Baron
- The Luminos Method
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: The Luminos Method
Places: Africa
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