The Quality of Educational Performance of Students in The Middle East And North Africa: Much Remains to Be Done

In a nutshell

• The quality of education in the MENA region, as measured by the performance of students in international evaluations, is very low.
• Despite the massive expansion of education and all the attempts to democratize it over the past decades, MENA countries still face significant socioeconomic inequalities.
• There is a significant turnaround in gender differences, whereby boys have become educationally disadvantaged.
• Policy reform has to target the reduction of inequality in educational achievement along with raising overall performance.