Are our children learning? Assessment of learning outcomes among children in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda

This paper attempts to compare learning levels of children in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda, based on the Uwezo Report titled: Are Our Children Learning? Numeracy and Literacy Across East Africa. This report bases on learning assessment of children in reading and comprehension of English (in the 3 countries), reading and comprehension of Kiswahili (In Tanzania and Kenya) and numeracy (in the 3 countries). A total of 145,730 children were assessed in the 3 countries, based on class 2 syllabus for the respective countries. This paper highlights three key findings