U.S. and India Strengthen Children's Reading Skills

The United States and India launched a reading initiative to improve the reading skills of millions of primary school-aged children in India.

The READ (Read-Engage-Achieve-Dream) Alliance is a USD 3.2 million partnership between the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Indian Center for Knowledge Societies (CKS).

Announcing the first call for proposals under READ's innovation challenge, which seeks to discover and test reading solutions, U.S.