Education Expert Luis Crouch Uses a Whiteboard to Explain Enrollment Rates

In this second episode of the EdBits series, Luis Crouch, Lead Education Expert at the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), clarifies a common misunderstanding about why education data often looks as if children are dropping out between grades 1 and 2.  He explains that, in fact, the difference in enrollment rates is the large numbers of repeaters, i.e. children who stay in grade 1 instead of moving on to grade 2, most likely because they have not learned enough during their first year in school.

Watch the video and learn more about this topic in Chapter 4 of the Results for Learning Report 2012.

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