Technology Driven Education Project (TDEP)


The Problem

18% of people worldwide are illiterate (1 in 5 people)

14% is the U.S. illiteracy rate versus 1%-5% in other industrialized countries

The Solution

Technology-Driven Education Project (TDEP) is the Bailey Institute’s global initiative to nurture leaders and reduce illiteracy through Internet-delivered English, science and mathematics courses that prepare people for work, tertiary education and success in the digital age. TDEP plans to expand to the U.S. and Nepal in 2011.

TDEP Success

TDEP achieved 98% success for 174 Liberian students in 2010.

"For the first time, I had enough time to focus on each lesson for as long as I wished. I feel confident as I begin my first year at the university level.” Mardea Weefur, College of Health Sciences.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

China, when gauged according to the numbers of its citizens who are illiterate adults, ranks as the eighth worst among ten sample countries selected from around the world, according to a report released by UNESCO on Tuesday.
Around 72 percent of the illiterate adults in the world live in the ten countries, which were chosen from 128 countries, according 
to the report.


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