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  • Addresses the critical issue of the Global Learning Crisis through a detailed case study of one of the first countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to enact far-reaching primary education policy

  • Challenges key assumptions about the issues of access and quality in basic education

  • Takes a novel analytical approach using mixed methods, integrating focus group discussions, individual interventions, quantitative analysis, and experimental methods

  • A constructive review of the discourse around the global learning crisis as well as a rich analysis of primary data