Impact evaluation of Pratham’s “Learning to Read” and “Reading to Learn” interventions

This note describes a collaborative research program over more than three years (including two and half years of field research) between the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab South Asia at the Institute for Financial Management and Research (J-PAL South Asia, for short) and Pratham to evaluate the impact on reading and maths test achievements of two of Pratham’s programs: “Learning to Read” and “Reading to Learn”. These programs lie at the centre of a nation-wide effort called Read India, whose objective is to teach all Indian children to read and do basic maths in a three-year period.