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70 percent of children are facing learning poverty. They are reaching age 10 without learning to read simple sentences, complete basic math tasks, grow social emotionally, or build positive learner identities.
You can help millions of children in Africa, Central America, South Asia, and the Middle East by making a Mastery Learning Giving Pledge.
Even before the pandemic, over 250 million children were out of school, and 617 million were in school, but not learning. COVID19 only made things worse. Today, very few countries are on track to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 4.
Standardized learning has been failing children ever since schools were made in the image of factories during the first industrial revolution.
But children are not factory widgets. They are uniquely distinct, as their DNA and fingerprints attest. Unsurprisingly, individual children have different learning needs, interests, and aspirations.
We need to personalize learning so that every child can master what they learn.
Technology acceleration during the fourth industrial revolution has gifted us with mastery learning solutions that enable us to fundamentally improve learning.
We can now personalize learning in ways that allow children to learn in their own way and at their own pace. This will help enable each child to master skill after skill successfully, as they navigate a knowledge map of of learning activities, carefully selected and organized specifically for them.
While children are productively engaged on the mastery learning solutions, teachers will be afforded the time, space, and opportunity to transform themselves into skillful one-to-one tutors. Tutors who can support mastery learning offline.
At home, these solutions allow parents to become active participants in learning.
The trifecta will help children stay focused and in the “zone,” mastering what they learn.
Mastery learning has the potential to reach millions of children and to achieve significant improvement in education. You can be the difference that helps change the world.
Since 2020, the Age of Learning Foundation has reached over 13.5 million children. Within the next five years, we aim to reach 50 million children through television and 20 million children at school through mastery learning.
The Age of Learning Foundation is a U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a mission to fundamentally improve education for children in low- and lower-middle-income countries. We partner with education ministries, local implementers, funding partners, and other stakeholders, making our mastery learning solutions, capacity development, and institution building support available to education systems, schools, and classrooms at no cost.
Together, we can end learning poverty.
1. Country PartnershipsWe partner with education ministries to pilot, scale, and mainstream mastery learning programs.
2. Mastery SolutionsWe introduce solutions to help children discover their identity as mastery learners.
3. Teacher DevelopmentWe help teachers develop into effective tutors who can support each child’s mastery journey.
4. Family InvolvementWe engage families in learning so that each child can thrive at the center of a mastery learning ecosystem.
5. Giving PledgeWe help forward thinking philanthropists fund mastery learning initiatives to improve children’s education.
6. Learning OutcomesTogether, we can help all children master what they learn in their own way and at their own pace.
With the Age of Learning Foundation, you can build a legacy, leave a legacy, or do both, by making a mastery learning giving pledge.
Translate your financial success into mastery learning opportunities for children in Africa, Central America, South Asia, and the Middle East.
Make a giving pledge to co-create the future with us.
Choose one or more of these options to tailor your mastery learning giving pledge for the impact you want to see.
A giving pledge with the Age of Learning Foundation is a three-year funding commitment to help millions of children build foundational literacy and numeracy, social-emotional competencies, and other learning and life skills.
Making a giving pledge is straightforward. It begins by you signing a commitment letter and grant agreement with us. We then work closely with you, as you determined how much to give and where to allocate your commitment.
Over the three years of your funding commitment, the Age of Learning Foundation keeps you actively involved and informed on the impact your giving pledge is making.
The Age of Learning Foundation offers six options to set your pledge. Each one is designed to optimize the reach and impact of your philanthropic giving.
Investment in the overall effectiveness, growth, and impact of our work.
Launch and incubation of mastery learning programs in new countries.
Capacity and institution building of education ministries and systems.
Creation of new solutions, content, platforms, and initiatives.
Support for program-related research, evidence, monitoring, and evaluation.
Cultivation of teachers, leaders, and technologists who deliver learning.
Want to make a smaller gift? Please review our individual giving opportunities >>
The Age of Learning Foundation is eager to partner with changemaker philanthropists, like you.
Please get in touch with us if you would like to learn more about making a giving pledge.
If we work together on the right initiatives, with the right focus and right sense of urgency, we can give our global children a chance to learn and build the future they deserve to experience.
The Age of Learning Foundation works across Africa, Central America, South Asia, and the Middle East.
We are currently present in six countries and are sowing seeds to actively grow our footprint, reach, and impact.
70 percent of children worldwide are facing learning poverty. They are reaching the age of 10 without being able to read simple sentences, complete basic math, establish strong learner identities, or build social relationships.
You have heard of athletes getting into the “zone.” Learning is just like that. There is a zone where children can experience “learning flow.” Lev Vygotsky, the Russian child psychologist, called it the Zone of Proximal Development. It is that remarkable space where learning is neither too difficult nor too easy. It is just right to help children build a true love of learning and acquire the tools and skills they need for mastery.
Benjamin Bloom, the American education psychologist, discovered that children who receive one-to-one mastery learning perform much better than peers in conventional classrooms. Bloom therefore challenged the world to identify methods of group instruction that could be as effective as one-to-one tutoring. The Age of Learning Foundation is answering Bloom’s call in our partner countries.
Age of Learning Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. 100% of public donations go directly to fund learning projects.