Talk:Education in Haiti

Providing Context and Balance

I would like to add to the excellent suggestions of Kdumelle13. Many statistics are used in this article but it is truly difficult to grasp the real significance unless one is a scholar in the education field. Comparing specific statistics to similar measurements in the neighboring country - the Dominican Republic, the United States- which most readers of this Wikipedia are most familiar with, and another country with similar economic struggles would aid greatly in understanding the current state. Knowing the numbers in a country with a better educational system would help know what the goals may be for Haiti.

In addition, adding to the section on the history of education will help to combat the subtext that the country's leaders have never valued education - false and so this attitude has tricked down to the population today - again false.

Among Kdumelle13's suggestion is more information on the privatization of the education sector. The extent of this is unique to Haiti and the reasons numerous. Explaining how this came to be is important; but what may be even more important after this explanation is why keeping the bulk of education in private hands is a negative for the sovereignty of a nation. Once this is made obvious, descriptions of practices used by those educational organizations and schools who are effectively implementing the government's educational goals should be detailed. NegMawon (talk) 16:11, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

Disagree about comparisons. Comparisons would be WP:SYNTH and therefore not allowed. They are also non-WP:TOPIC. It is okay to say "the United Nations rated Haiti nn in a list of educational facilities in xx countries". So we can use internationally known organizations to provide some basis, but it cannot be compared with the United States or even the Dominican Republic. That would have to be a separate article which would, IMO, be hard to justify as sufficiently notable.

Secondly, you do realize that Haiti is poor, right? They do not have the money to build schools. Schools are maintained by private sources or the church sometimes. Sometimes they provide scholarships.

Thirdly, you do realize that Haiti has corruption problems, right? Therefore, any actual money provided to anyone in the government, may or may not find it's way down to the school level. In short, no reasonable person expects Haiti to run it's own schools! Just obtaining basic literacy is the main goal right now. Anything beyond that is extra at this point in time. Student7 (talk) 23:29, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

Sources

I see the suggestion to remove the two sources mentioned at the beginning of the occupation section but I also see great value in giving the reader a quick take on the sources used so they can determine how accurate or experienced the sources are - before they start reading.NegMawon (talk) 18:06, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Okay to provide early citation if you think it is helpful. Please name it and insert it at the end of the paragraph, as well, so that the editor/reader may rest assured that the remainder is, indeed, covered by the citation. There is nothing wrong with inserting the citation as late as possible in a paragraph. This is generally the case. Student7 (talk) 19:15, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

I am the editor of the website I inserted

I think I am supposed to declare this. It is a list of about 330 Haitian schools that have websites. It is one of the few current lists of schools in Haiti. The government does not provide such a list. The website is free and public and updated regularly. It has no ads. The website is Educational NGOs in Haiti. Negmawon (talk) NegMawon (talk) 22:25, 5 January 2022 (UTC)