Although there have been major reforms in education, 10 to 15 percent of early age children are still out of school. Faisal Bari, Director the Institute of Development and Economic Alternatives (IDEAS) argues that to solve this problem, we need to further investigate how much value students are getting out of education. Weak learning outcomes and high dropout rates indicate that value is low, possibly convincing parents that there is little use in sending their children to school.
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