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Half of Grade Six learners cannot read and comprehend a Grade Three English storybook. This should alarm and indeed shock everyone in the education sector.
Literacy is not just another school outcome. It is the doorway to all learning. When reading collapses, every other subject limps.
Global food security experts said that "famine thresholds for acute malnutrition have now been surpassed" in North Darfur's contested areas of Um Baru and Kernoi, near the border with Chad.
Education stakeholders have raised concerns over deepening gaps in foundational learning in Kenyan schools.
While serving as a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA, in 2009, I encountered one of those rare moments that expanded my imagination.
I’m writing in response to Prof Egara Kabaji’s article titled “Sorry state of our creativity and crisis of shrinking minds”.
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