Inside plan to boost reading, writing and arithmetic skills
President Samia Suluhu Hassan listens to Education minister Adolf Mkenda during the launch of the Scientific Plan to Build Literacy and Math Skills among pre-primary and primary school pupils in Dar es Salaam yesterday. PHOTO | STATE HOUSE
Dar es Salaam. For years, Tanzania’s education debate has focused on classrooms, teachers’ welfare and examination results. Yet beneath all these lies a quieter but more decisive question: can children actually read, write and count well enough in their early years to cope with learning later on?
It is this concern that has pushed the government to launch a new national strategy aimed at strengthening reading, writing and arithmetic for children in pre-primary, Standard One and Standard Two.
