News Summaries 4: ‘Kenya’s Unusual Solution to the School Problem-Cancel the Year and Start Over’

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News Summaries 4

Title of the Article: Kenya’s Unusual Solution to the School Problem-Cancel the Year and Start Over

Date of Publication: August 5, 2020

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The article is about how a whole year has disappeared for Kenya students. The author's main premise is that the ministry of education in Kenya has failed to provide an alternative learning solution for students during this pandemic. According to the news article, the main problem is that the ministry cannot afford to direct all government and private schools to offer online learning due to the high level of poverty among many households. As the author notices, over 50% of families whose children are in school cannot afford consistent online charges and other associated accessories like computers and internet connection. For this reason, the ministry had resulted in nullifying the whole year and indicating that when students resume school in January 2021, they...