Education in Haiti: The Way Forward
- Haiti has the lowest enrollment, completion and literacy rates of any country in the Western Hemisphere, although accurate and updated statistics are unavailable.
- Nearly 80% of enrollments are in private schools, which range enormously in quality.
- The report recommends strengthening the capacity of government so that it acts as a facilitator of quality education for public and private schools alike.
- It recommends a public-private system in which government increases its engagement with and oversight of the private education sector.
- Parents of more than two million students make large economic sacrifices for schooling.
The report was inspired by a February 2007 meeting in Atlanta on the role of the private sector in improving Haitian education and by the author's December 2007 visit to Haiti. It states that Haiti has the lowest enrollment, completion and literacy rates in the Western Hemisphere and that nearly 80% of enrollments are in private schools of widely varying quality. It reviews education conditions with tables on quality, enrollment ratios, financing and per-student expenditure by level, and notes promising developments in government, the private school sector, business and donor agencies.
Its recommendations are to strengthen the capacity of government, to commit to a public-private system, and to set goals by level of education. A final section lists the tasks for government, the private sector and donor agencies, and annexes name the persons consulted, documents reviewed and schools visited.
How to cite
Partnership for Educational Revitalization in the Americas (PREAL); Inter-American Dialogue, 2008, Education in Haiti: The Way Forward, accessed via HaitiDocs, https://www.haitidocs.org/doc/preal-2008-education-in-haiti-the-way-forward
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