education, Africa, poverty, Bridge Schools, private v. public: I had no idea …
Much rides on Bridge’s fate. There is a movement, championed by Sir Michael Barber (chief educational adviser to Pearson and formerly a top official in the Blair government), and by Tooley and Dixon, among others, to shift government money and international aid toward increasing access to low-cost private schools and so away from public schools. Public schools are failing, but this idea would make them worse, as the reason they are so bad in the first place is that no one with any clout uses them.
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