"And then when you look at how it's taught, you have some teachers who are teaching handwriting by providing instruction for ten,fifteen minutes a day, and then other teachers who basically teach it for sixty to seventy minutes a day which really for handwriting is pretty much death."

VOA: special.2009.10.29

She said we need to modify outdated curriculum and improve instruction methods, such as teaching African children in their native languages, not simply in English or French.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19