How can education be improved in third world countries?

How diverse interventions in education can help tackle extreme poverty in developing countries. ... Silver bullets are hard to come by in the developing world. ... However, system-level changes—such as improved accountability—have the potential to improve teaching and learning on a national scale. read more

In most developing countries, few children graduate from secondary school and many don’t even finish primary school. In Ghana, for example, only 50 percent of children complete grade 5, and of those, less than half can comprehend a simple paragraph. read more