Results of the 2021 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study show that 81% of Grade 4 learners in SA are unable to read for meaning in any language.
Local and international evidence confirms that what really shifts the needle in education, is the quality of teaching. Jonathan Jansen’s thoughtful review of The Silent Crisis, Centre for Development and Enterprise’s (CDE) new series of five reports on education reform, is a useful contribution and overall an encouraging endorsement from one of the country’s leading education voices (‘What powerful report gets right and wrong about education in SA’, TimesLIVE, 6 April 2023). He raises a number of important issues, and he is certainly correct that data and statistics — no matter how compelling — are not enough to get the government to act.
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