Unfortunately, attendance is not education's most reliable metric
Despite the inevitable concerns about standards, there are still millions of children attending school who otherwise wouldn’t have been, which means they are learning.
That’s Ugandan thinktanker Lawrence Bategeka, quoted in Jonathan Glennie’s recent article on the results of Uganda’s shift to universal primary education.
#1 by Sam Gardner on October 23, 2010 - 8:05 pm
All these years of boredom staring at an incompetent teacher, if he’s there, or more interestingly, at the birds outside.