The Challenge of Inclusive Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
This report documents the challenge of achieving inclusive education in Africa. Primary school completion rates are 10 percentage points lower for girls with disabilities than for girls without disabilities. For boys, the disability gap in primary...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/171921543522923182/The-Challenge-of-Inclusive-Education-in-Sub-Saharan-Africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31005 |
| Summary: | This report documents the challenge of
achieving inclusive education in Africa. Primary school
completion rates are 10 percentage points lower for girls
with disabilities than for girls without disabilities. For
boys, the disability gap in primary completion rates is 13
points. Gaps are also large for secondary education
completion and children with disabilities are much more
likely to never enroll in school at all. Across the board
disability gaps have been steadily increasing over the last
20 years. Even when children with disabilities manage to
remain in school, they perform on average less well on
mathematics and reading tests. This is one of the reasons
why only half of children with disabilities of primary
school completion age can read and write, and only one in
four complete secondary school. Multiple factors lead to
disability gaps in education. According to teacher
perceptions on the reasons why children drop out of school,
lack of adequate infrastructure for children with
disabilities is a major issue. In addition, among a dozen
types of in-service training provided to teachers, training
related to inclusive education is the least commonly
provided. Finally, screening for disabilities in school
remains very rare. In essence, children with disabilities
are being left behind by efforts to improve education
opportunities for all. Investing in the education of
children with disabilities is required from a rights
perspective , but it is also a smart investment. Indeed,
apart from a wide range of other benefits from educational
attainment, the labor market returns to education for
individuals with disabilities are large and similar order to
the returns observed for other individuals. |
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