Haiti Needs Education Reform to Prosper
Although the Haitian government has claimed to focus on education, the stats on illiteracy, children who aren’t enrolled in school, classroom overcrowding, etc. are still unacceptable. Many agree that education is the key to improving Haiti but the current focus is often more on enrollment than graduation. The UN Special Envoy for Global Education has launched A World at School, a worldwide campaign to give millions of children a chance to learn. The daunting reality of Haiti’s children Woodline Gedeon, Miami Herald May 8, 2014 Every morning, little girls and boys dressed in neatly pressed school uniforms, crowd the streets of Port-au-Prince headed toward what many believe are the steps toward a brighter future. Yet despite the ongoing education emphasis in Haiti where the government is currently taxing its diaspora via remittances and phone calls to provide free education services, challenges […]