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Educational Inequality in Jamaica: The Need for Reform

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43-58
Publication Date: 
December 1998
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Abstract: 

In its Five-Year Development Plan, 1990–1995, the Government of Jamaica proclaimed its belief in "education as a desired end of society" and in the right of all individuals to education and training opportunities in order to develop their innate creative and intellectual capabilities". It formally and decisively acknowledged “the vital role of education as a tool for social change and stability".

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