Education Disaster in Africa

Since Africa is such a big country, it has many people. Of course some of these people are school aged children that need to attend school. There are 128 million school aged children in Africa, and 17 million of these children will never attend a school. However, 37 million children who do attend school will barely learn anything that they end up just like the ones who never attended. These kids who aren't learning anything are going to be Africa's future, and it's not looking so good.

The education system has gotten better in the last few years, but it doesn't help so much when the children are not actually learning while in school. Half of the sub-saharan children who attend school will grow up to adolescents without the basic skills to live adequate lives. In 3 countries, over half of the children attending school will not learn the basic skills by the end of primary school.

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The question is, what do they need to do to fix this education crisis? Many people say they need more books to have proper teachings, but from the readings it seems as if they already have a great amount of these books. My personal opinion is that the teachers need help in class, and they do not have the proper techniques to teach these children and keep them on track at school. What's your opinion?