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Chirantan Chatterjee, Eric Hanushek, Shreekanth Mahendiran Children in many extremely poor, remote regions are growing up illiterate and innumerate despite high reported school enrolment ratios (Pritchett 2013, Glewwe and Muralidharan 2016). This phenomenon of ‘schooling without learning’ has many alleged sources, such as insufficient demand, inadequate schooling materials, and a lack of qualified, motivated teachers. These factors are resulting in a substantial part of developing countries’ populations being illiterate and innumerate. The consequences of this phenomenon are dire: for ...

Content and that school isn't teaching content. that's when i realized, i had no idea what i was looking at. most people think schools are actually trying to build kids' knowledge, then i learned that wasn't even the objective. >> if our knowledge gaps are compounded early on. logically, it makes sense that in order to fix the knowledge gap, you have to start at the beginning of the education system. so how critical are universal pre-k systems? >> preschool programs are really important, good quality ones. there is a well-known thing called preschool fade out.

Dallas medical journal. i want to quote the doctor. female physicians do not work as hard and do not see as many patients as male physicians. this is because they choose to or they simply don't want to be rushed or they don't want to work the long hours. most of the time their priority is something else, family, social, whatever. nothing needs to be done about this unless female physicians actually want to work harder and put in the hours. if not, they should be paid less. >> okay. dr.t doctor quickly realized he ticked off the wrong group of women, working moms, respondsing with tweets like t...

President in the united states and foreign policy is a major -- yes, the average american you ask, do they know who these people are, they're going to say no, i don't even know. i have to use a score card sometimes in terms of foreign policy and who is controlling what. but the commander in chief, someone who is aspiring to lead us and lead this country and be the world's augt thofrt should know these things or at least have a better response in not you've given me a gotcha yes. >> without a view, the interview exposed knowledge gaps in donald trump's foreign policy understanding. the question...

And secretary of state hillary clinton yesterday, jon. jon: the president says the state department has some idea of who the opposition is, right? >> reporter: the pentagon has admit heed there are quote, knowledge gaps about who the rebels are but the president pushed back in an interview on cbs last night. >> first of all, i think it's important to note that the people that we've met with have been fully vetted, we have a clear sense of who they are. so far they are saying the right thing, bows of them are professionals, lawyers, doctors, people who appear to be credible. that doesn't mean t...