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Why poor families reject free schools for private, often illegal ones.
How The New Education Establishment Betrayed The World’s Poorest Children
broken promises, broken schools
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240 pages
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19 March 2025
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Summary
Failing the Future: How Good Intentions Betrayed the World’s Poorest Children
This book tells the real story of education in low-income countries and shows why ordinary people are making extreme sacrifices to reject free public schools in favor of low quality private schools, both legal and illegal. Based on the author’s experience of working in the UN system, for a child rights NGO in New Delhi; and working on aid projects and with private foundations in Africa and…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781350469211 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1350469211 |
| Author: | Joanna Härmä |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 19 March 2025 |
| Weight: | 378g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
Joanna Härmä
Joanna Härmä is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK and India. She is the author of Low-fee Private Schooling and Poverty in Developing Countries (Bloomsbury, 2021).
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