Teacher Quality and Liberia’s Educational System

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the development of Liberia’s educational system. Although the educational system was designed to accommodate everyone, Liberia’s illiteracy rate is still estimated at fifty-three percent (53%) as of 2015 [1]. With a current population of approximately 4.6 million [2], 33.2% of Liberians have had no education, 31.1% have had only primary education while 35.75% have had secondary and tertiary education [1,2]. The unhealthy state of education in Liberia is further intensified by the lack of essential learning resources and personnel, resulting in a large proportion of students receiving less quality education [3]. Consequently, these challenges have led to an increased application of various strategies to the development of sustainable solutions to the problems of rural/urban education in the Liberian context. These efforts are as a result of the need to respond to the consequences of a fourteen-year long civil conflict on the education sector [2].