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Expert Spotlight
Pooja Reddy Nakamura
Pooja Reddy Nakamura focuses on foundational learning and multilingual education and has overseen projects in over 20 countries to understand how early literacy is acquired in complex, multilingual contexts. In this Q&A she shares how governments are using evidence to improve national literacy, the benefits of multilingualism, and tactics that help sustain literacy programs.
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