This project is linked to the achievement of the 4th Education for All goal to increase adult literacy levels by 50% by 2015, especially for women.

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The award will recognise the project that has made a singular engineering achievement in restoration.

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This achievement is the fruit of an international project team's labours, bringing together key skill sets within the Group, Moldova and Romania.

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My project was also selected as one of ten national AXA Achievement award winners.

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The project is a part of a joint UN programme of the MDG Achievement Fund.

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But the intention is to provide a more multi-dimensional view of educational achievement - and create a databank which will be updated, in a project that Pearson is calling the Learning Curve.

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The Black Star Project was founded in 1996 as a 501(c)(3) organization designed to eliminate the racial academic achievement gap among Black, Latino, White, and Asian students.

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Similarly, preliminary evaluations of the Edison Project, a private firm which manages 12 local schools, demonstrate that students have made significant academic gains on student achievement tests in three of the four Edison schools that opened in 1995.

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