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Alef Education Collaborates with MetaMetrics® to Laun

Reading Scale to Boost Literacy Rate in the MENA Regi

PRESS RELEASE Published February 6th, 2024 - 08:45 GMT

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Alef Education, a UAE-based global leader in education technology, announces a strategic
collaboration with MetaMetrics®, the US-based developer of the Lexile® Framework for
Reading, to launch an Arabic reading scale to improve the literacy skills of approximately
100 million K-12 Arabic speakers across the Middle East and North Africa. The unique scale
is set to become the de facto standard for Modern Standard Arabic, just as the Lexile®
Framework for Reading is now the standard for English, as ministries of education in the
MENA region strive to preserve and promote Arabic language and culture.

This innovative collaboration aims to provide native Arabic speakers with a powerful tool to
improve their literacy in Arabic, promoting a more effective and personalized approach to
improving literacy in the region. By leveraging the expertise of Alef Education and the
MetaMetrics® Lexile® Framework for Reading, the initiative aims to provide students
across the MENA region with the foundational skills they need for academic success and
lifelong learning.

Benefits of an Arabic reading scale include the ability for governments to identify and
measure students’ reading levels and progress over time, regardless of the reading materials
used, by comparing geographic regions, school districts, and individual schools using the
same scale. In addition, publishers, EdTech companies, and authors of Arabic language
content will be able to link their reading materials and assessments to the unified scale to
meet learners’ needs for reading materials. It will be easier for teachers to measure their

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