Abstract The Basic Education Development Project No. 279-0053, also known as the Yemen Project, was a collaboration from 1979 to 1986 between Eastern Michigan University's College of Education and Sana'a University in the Yemen Arab Republic (now North Yemen). The project was contracted and overseen by the United States Agency for International Development in an effort to improve Yemen's basic education system during its period of modernization. The project was divided into four subprojects: Core...