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Holding up half the sky Opinion February 19, 2021 The writer is an independent education researcher and consultant. She has a PhD in Education from Michigan State University. In the global fight against illiteracy, there is some good news. Enrollment rates are rising worldwide. Here, in Pakistan, enrollment rates in primary schools have broken through 95 percent. But there is a caveat – learning levels have stagnated. The Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP) conducted the Learning and Educational Achievements in Pakistan Schools (LEAPS) study in 2008 and surveyed student achievement levels in Math, English and Urdu of third graders. The results were both disappointing and eye-opening. In Math, only 47 percent students could answer simple counting questions, only 32 percent could subtract 3-digit numbers and only 19 percent could divide a 3-digit by a 1-digit number. ....