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Student who captured Ghana’s Imagination wins Rising’s Alumni of The Year Award.
2023
Rising Students achieve stellar results again in Sierra Leone! Read more here.
Rori selected as one of the 100 most impactful and scalable education innovations from around the world in the HundrED 2024 Global Collection.
Rising joins the Learning Engineering Virtual Institute (LEVI) which has a mission to revolutionise math education globally.
Rori Chatbot presented at New York Public Library for the United Nations General Assembly #UNGA78. More details here.
The Future is EdTech - How Innovations Bring it to All. This article by @HundrEDorg features Rising's George Cowell talking about Rori and its impact.
Rising delivers strong pilot results in Rwanda Elimu-Soko Partnership. Read more here.
School leaders from seven low-cost private schools joined us in Ghana at Rising first ever "Bambai Demo Day”. The details are here.
In ‘What Calls Us Back’, Precious, our Managing Director in Liberia, explains the remarkable story of her life, and why she has chosen this moment to leave her life in America to return to West Africa.
Morrison T. Morris was awarded a highly-prestigious placement on this year’s Mandela Washington Fellowship Program. All the details are here.
Our partnership with Imagine Worldwide was recently discussed in the Forbes article ‘The Learning Leapfrog in Liberia, Sierra Leone’.
We are proud to partner with the Ministry of Education Rwanda on their Elimu-Soko project supported by Dalberg and Hempel Foundation. Read the details here.
BBC radio show Digital Planet reports about how our AI-powered chatbot tutor called Rori, available through Whatsapp, is helping children across West Africa, bypass expensive tuition fees. You can listen here (segment starts at 20 minutes)
2022
Rising’s new Chief Technical Officer, Shabnam Aggarwal, speaks on the CNBC panel for the MasterCard Foundation’s Young Africa Works initiative, “Using Ed-Tech to Drive Learning for Displaced Youth”.
2021
Rising featured in the Harvard Business Review: 'How Impact Investors Can Prepare for the Next Crisis’.
Rising’s Rori chatbot scoops Learning Award at the 2021 Falling Walls Science Summit.
The Financial Times describes the mixed opinions regarding Liberia’s Partnership Schools program, noting that Rising Academies performed among the best overall of the PSL program participants.
Rising Academies selected as one of ten winners in the Future Learning category of this year's Falling Walls Foundation Awards.
Omega Schools CEO, Alain Guy Tanefo, featured in the Learnit podcast episode, “A Low Cost, Pay As You Go, Private School Model”.
B Corp recognises Rising Academies as a "Best For the World" global top 5% performer in the Customers category, which measures the impact a company has on its customers through their products or services.
Rori wins the MIT Solve and Jacobs Foundation Grand Innovation Prize in the category of scalable innovations for blended learning.
Rising On Air Interactive (RORI) selected as a winner of Schmidt Futures Forum on Learning competition.
Rising On Air is selected for the prestigious HundrED Global Innovation 2021 Award and the mEducation Literacy Award.
2020
Rising On Air was selected as one of the HundrED annual Global Collection innovations, which highlights 100 of the leading innovations in K12 education from around the world.
Rising Academies CEO Paul Skidmore sat down with Iqbal Khan of UBS Global and Jacqueline Novogratz, founder and CEO of Acumen to discuss the importance of quality education.
The Rising On Air initiative was highlighted in a report by the OECD, the World Bank, HundrED, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education on education continuity during the coronavirus crisis.
Our coronavirus distance learning solution Rising On Air was featured in two recent articles on Al Jazeera. Find them here and here.
Rising features in “Lessons from a radical education experiment in Liberia” in The Economist.
2019
“If you believed that students were going to be better off in your schools than the alternative, there was a responsibility to do whatever it took to enroll them and keep them enrolled, even if that meant improvising and flexing your model to fit the situations you encountered.” CEO Paul Skidmore spoke to Quartz for an article on the LEAP RCT.
2018
CEO Paul Skidmore sat down with the IRC’s Ravi Gurumurthy and Grant Gordon for the Displaced podcast.
Jenny Anderson's long-read on innovative education models for Quartz features Rising. Offers a glimpse of what it's like inside a Rising classroom.
2017
The Christian Science Monitor visited one of our Partnership Schools in Liberia.
Devex reports on results of the Liberia RCT and plans for the second year of Partnership Schools.
Our work in Liberia was featured in David Pilling's FTWeekend magazine cover story on Partnership Schools for Liberia.