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Primary education in crisis: why South African schoolchildren underachieve in reading and mathematics

FLEISCH, Brahm Cape Town, 2008 2008.

Primary education in crisis: why South African schoolchildren underachieve in reading and mathematics Brahm Fleisch. - Cape Town: Juta; 2008. - xiv, 162 pages Colour illustrations: 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-158) and index.

Primary education in crisis pulls together the wealth of research on health, poverty, resources, language and teaching as factors in academic achievement in reading, writing and mathematics. At the centre of the book is an analysis of the published studies that systematically document what teachers teach and fail to teach, and why it is that teaching is at the heart of the crisis in primary education. The author suggests that there are no quick fixes, but only hard choices and that, for reform to succeed, it must be evidence-based.

Adult

ISBN: 9780702 177071

Subjects--Personal Names:
FLEISCH, Brahm Cape Town, 2008 2008.

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Juta

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
Critical world issues

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
Kabbala

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Reading (Primary)

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
South Africa

Subjects--Facted Index Terms:
Education

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Adult Non-Fiction

Index Terms--Curriculum Objective:
Achievement

Dewey Class. No.: 372.968 FLEI