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Collaboration Schools: An initiative to strengthen equity and inclusion in South Africa - World Education Blog
In 2018, prior to the pandemic, 98% of school-aged children were attending some form of education in South Africa. There had also been gradual gains in quality. Reading scores in primary school improved by roughly 0.05 standard deviations per year between 2011 and 2016, the third-fastest rate of the 43 countries that took part in the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS). But despite this progress, South Africa is far behind most of the world in terms of learning outcomes. Its children still cannot read, they cannot write, and they cannot do basic arithmetic.