Literacy, the ability to read and write, allows people to access information, increase their productivity, and achieve their full potential. Research has shown that early literacy is a threshold which countries must pass to grow economically. Emerging from years of political turmoil, Cambodia needed to improve language acquisition, especially in the early school grades. A rethink in how reading was taught, teacher training, and national assessments raised reading results.
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