How African countries can reform education

Education Cabinet Secretary Prof George Magoha with the Beneficiaries of the 2020 KCPE Exams Scholarships awards at the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development on July 22, 2021.[Samson Wire,Standard]

The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in a historic shock to education, shuttering schools for over 1.6 billion children worldwide. This shock will worsen a pre-existing “learning crisis” in which many students in the school were learning very little. The World Bank estimates that the percentage of children who are unable to read a simple sentence by age 10 could rise from 53% before the pandemic to 63% as a result of school closures.