Reach Up: Transforming Early Childhood Education | Barbados News

Two UWI professors just won the education world’s Nobel—the Yidan Prize—for revolutionizing early childhood development with their globally scaled “Reach Up” program, now reaching hundreds of thousands of kids across 21 countries and set to expand to 1.5 million in Brazil. Their research, born in Jamaica in 1986, proves that simple, affordable, culturally rooted caregiver activities can unlock lifelong learning—especially for children in poverty. By embedding learning into daily routines and partnering with local systems, Reach Up delivers free, ever-evolving tools that are reshaping how we support the youngest learners worldwide. Listen in comfort:Get a discount on a Soli Pillow: http://solipillow.com/discount/dnn. Advertise on DNN:[email protected] This is an automated, high-level news summary based on public reporting.Sources:https://barbadostoday.bb/2026/09/13/uwi-researchers-win-worlds-largest-education-prize-for-transforming-early-childhood-development/ More coverage & latest updates:https://sources.thednn.ai/79a399a09d38adde Report issues to [email protected].