Reflections from a discussion convened by the Queen Rania Foundation and the Van Leer Foundation during the 2026 United Nations General Assembly.
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Rawan Awwad, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager at Queen Rania Foundation, reflects on her work supporting evidence-informed education projects in Jordan through the GEE project.
“It was nearly impossible for her to read anything, even a single word.” That’s how the father of a third-grade student described her struggle with reading before her school joined the Let’s Read Fluently! (LRF!) program. Like many students across Jordan, she found reading in Modern Standard Arabic a daunting task. This difficulty began to affect her confidence and her performance in other subjects.
The Queen Rania Foundation (QRF) dedicates itself to the development, distribution, and adaptation of research-based pedagogies in Jordan and the...
Today, half of all children in Jordan are unable to read and understand a simple text at age ten, which The World Bank and UNESCO have classified as...
For the past decade, the Queen Rania Foundation (QRF) has dedicated itself to improving literacy outcomes in Jordan and throughout the Arab region...
