A Short Whiteboard Lesson Explaining Enrollment and Population in Primary School

In this third lesson from the EdBits whiteboard series, Luis Crouch, Lead Education Expert at the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), continues on the topic from Lesson 2 about why it may seem children are dropping out of school when in fact they are just repeating.  In this lesson, Luis explains the complex issue of dropout and repetition in the early grades of primary school. Do declining enrollment numbers mean that more kids are dropping out? Not necessarily. Luis shows how repetition is more prevalent in the early grades and dropping out happens in later grades.

Watch the video and see the chart below with data from Mozambique, Rwanda and Madagascar. To read more about these issues, check out our  Results for Learning report, especially Chapter 3, pp. 60-67, where you can learn what a small percentage of out of school children of primary school age are dropouts, or Chapter 4, pp. 141-142, where some of the reasons for over-bulging in the early grades are explained.

http://youtu.be/E_V25wVxvzo

Source: Enrollment data from the Mozambique Education Management Information System, Population data from the UN Population Projections Medium Variant

Source: World Bank EdStats

Source: World Bank EdStats

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