Bridging Home and School: Why parents matter
ORANGE FARM: Experts have long held that a key to reading success is not exclusive to the classroom, but in the everyday learning that happens at home. “Learning does not begin when children walk through the school doors, nor does it end when they exit for the day. It takes place all the time, everywhere.”
How funding apartheid fail young library users
MAKHANDA: When Grade 11 learner Sipho Mthembu arrives on Monday afternoons at Duna Library, his local facility in Joza, Makhanda, he’s not looking for books to borrow. He needs something more basic: a quiet place to study with working electricity. Yet the library closes at 5 pm, soon after school ends.