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Sharon Wolf; Elisabetta Aurino; Noelle M. Suntheimer; Esinam A. Avornyo; Edward Tsinigo; Jasmine Jordan; Solomon Samanhiya; J. Lawrence Aber; Jere R. Behrman – Grantee Submission, 2022
Remote learning programs were rapidly implemented throughout the COVID-19 pandemic during school closures. We drew on an ongoing longitudinal study of a cohort of children in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana to survey children (N = 1,844), their caregivers, and teachers to examine learning experiences during the ten months of school closures in…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Learner Engagement, Outcomes of Education, COVID-19
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Wolf, Sharon; McCoy, Dana C.; Godfrey, Erin B. – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2016
Governments in sub-Saharan Africa have made marked efforts to increase school enrollment. Yet attendance and completion rates remain low, particularly for girls. This study examines the reasons that school children do not attend school in a sample of Ghanaian students. Girls were more likely to miss school because a family member was sick, whereas…
Descriptors: Barriers, Equal Education, Attendance, Access to Education