PROTOCOL: Parental, Familial and Community Support Interventions to Improve Children's Literacy in Developing Countries: A Systematic Review

For a majority of the world's children, despite substantial increases in access to primary school, academic learning is neither occurring at expected rates nor supplying the basic foundational skills necessary to succeed in the 21st century. As of 2010, approximately 61 million primary school-age children worldwide were not attending school. Among those attending school, academic learning is far from assured. For example, only 46 percent of children in Nicaragua achieve Grade 4 learning standards, a figure that drops to less than 5 percent in Malawi. In Ghana, as of 2008, four out of five young women who had completed Grade 6 were still illiterate or only partially literate (UNESCO, 2012). The significant lag in academic achievement tells us that schools…