Low-Cost Private Schools Are Changing the Developing World

I have been to Liberia and Sierra Leone, countries recently torn by civil war, as well as South Sudan, still in the throes of bloody conflict. Journeying into the slums, I quickly found what I’ve found in every other developing country: low-cost private school, after low-cost private school. Experts I’d spoken to before my visit told me I might find a small number of church or NGO schools, but nothing else. In fact, I found huge numbers of schools run by proprietors – “for-profit” low-cost schools.