How to make schools work for the poor

What I learned: The discussion begins with a country which has nearly 100% of its children enrolled in school, but it states that the achievement is low. Although children are in school, they lack the ability to read and write even after a few years of school (first, second, third grade). A little less than half of the kids enrolled in standard 3 to 5 can't read a sentence. The curriculum that is being taught to the students is not sticking, and they are not comprehending it fully. Though so many students are enrolled, the attendance is low. The rate of absence for children is typically thirty to fifty percent. Some of the teachers (that aren't absent that day) don't teach every day either. The schools are very baron. Less desks than students, a few textbooks, and  of course no technology. More textbooks, according to a study, wouldn't have that huge of an effect. An abundance of changes have attempted to have been made regarding the education system, and yet nothing has been proven to be greatly successful.

How it relates: This, again, being on the topic of education, doesn't relate as much to my paper about Sudan and government. One way it could relate to the government aspect however, is that the government could help with the little existing educational platforms in the country if said government was improved. In my paper I spoke of small governments directly assisting agriculture once their "feet were in the ground" and they were stable. Of course, that was because my topic was food security to go along with education. However, it is necessary for a country to make leaps in education if they want to climb out of poverty. Along with the changes and help to agriculture, these small scale governments that I suggested in my paper could help in benefiting and implementing education at a more successful level as well. To do this, however, it would have to be done CORRECTLY. As this lesson and previous lessons made very clear.