Under the controversial scheme private education companies take over the day-to-day running of schools like the Cecelia Dunbar School, about 30 kilometres from Monrovia. On a weekday morning in Cecelia Dunbar School, a bumpy hour’s drive from Liberia’s capital, a group of seven-year-olds concentrate on their math’s lesson, seated at individual wooden desks. Children at schools like Cecelia Dunbar read and count at a level improved by 60 percent from a year ago — proof, according to the government and private education companies, that a bold experiment for one of the world’s worst education systems has succeeded. “The approaches that each of the providers are bringing in are showing results,” said Christina PioCosta-Lahue, the managing director of Rising Academies Liberia, which operates 29 schools on the government’s behalf under the Partnership Schools Programme launched last year. Read more of this storySource: Daily Mail/AFP(Visited 37 times, 37 visits today)Commentscomments

Source: GNN Liberia October 20, 2017 03:11 UTC