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Survey: Kenyan Schools churning out ‘illiterates’

By WACHIRA KIGOTHO

Parents in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda must start facing the hard facts that most of their children in schools are not learning. Simply put, children are not acquiring basic reading and numeracy skills during their early years of primary education.

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