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  • Educational opportunities for children in Khayelitsha and townships like it are vanishingly slim. According to official figures, only about 40 percent of young South Africans nationwide obtain any qualification beyond grade nine.

    Youth Day 2013: Too many South African learners continue to struggle against long odds

    Educational opportunities for children in Khayelitsha and townships like it are vanishingly slim. According to official figures, only about 40 percent of young South Africans nationwide obtain any qualification beyond grade nine.

  • Concerns over the unintended consequences of teacher evaluations are neither new nor news.

    Really? Teacher evaluations have sparked a 'civil war' in education reform?

    Concerns over the unintended consequences of teacher evaluations are neither new nor news.

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