| Liberia's education system "a mess": President Sirleaf Posted: 29 Aug 2013 11:02 PM PDT  MONROVIA (Reuters) - President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has branded Liberia's education system "a mess" requiring a complete overhaul, days after all 25,000 high school students sitting state university entrance exams failed. University authorities last week said not a single university applicant had achieved the minimum grade for admission, highlighting one of the many problems facing the country 10 years after the end of a devastating civil war. "The students' failure did not come from the university, but rather from the schools that prepared them. ...
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| Does sending your kid to private school make you a scourge on society? Posted: 29 Aug 2013 01:00 PM PDT  In what could alternately be seen as a provocative argument or a master class in trolling, Allison Benedikt at Slate says you are a bad person if you send your kid to private school. If people who can afford private school just held their noses for a few generations and deigned to send their kids to crappy public schools, one of our nation's most important institutions will improve, she says.So, how would this work exactly? It's simple! Everyone needs to be invested in our public schools in order for them to get better. ...
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