We found out this week that 81% of South African grade 4 pupils could not read for meaning in any language, the highest percentage of all 57 participating countries and regions in the study. We also experienced the largest decline in test scores between 2016 and 2021. To put this in perspective, of the 1.1-million children in grade 4, about 900,000 can’t read. To call these findings anything other than devastating would be a euphemism and an injustice.
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