@inbook{10.7249/mg1039srf-cc.15, ISBN = {9780833050434}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7249/mg1039srf-cc.15}, abstract = {As the Haitian government reported in its PDNA, “(the) education system already presented deficiencies before the earthquake that made it unfit to contribute to socio-economic development.”¹ Low quality, lack of access, and little oversight characterized the country’s education sector. The state played a very limited role in providing and regulating schooling, a fact that contributed to an incoherent education system. Enrollment rates and levels of educational attainment were very low. About one-half of Haitian adults were illiterate;² according to theWorld Development Indicatorsdatabase, the average adult has 2.8 years of schooling. About half of school-aged children were not in}, bookauthor = {Keith Crane and James Dobbins and Laurel E. Miller and Charles P. Ries and Christopher S. Chivvis and Marla C. Haims and Marco Overhaus and Heather Lee Schwartz and Elizabeth Wilke}, booktitle = {Building a More Resilient Haitian State}, pages = {101--120}, publisher = {RAND Corporation}, title = {Education}, year = {2010} }