Pakistan, June 20 -- The School Education & Literacy Department (SE&LD), Government of Sindh, in collaboration with the World Bank and the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), hosted a high-level dissemination workshop for the Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) Baseline Survey 2024 at the Pearl Continental Hotel, Karachi. Held under the Sindh Early Learning Enhancement through Classroom Transformation (SELECT) Project, the workshop presented data from 7,200 Grade 2 students across 600 schools in 12 project districts.

In his welcome remarks, Dr. Junaid Hameed Samo, Chief Program Manager, RSU, stressed the importance of evidence-based reforms. Key EGRA findings were shared, showing significant learning gaps: 28% of students in Sindhi...