A picture taken on October 4, 2014, shows Prince David, a school boy, tired of staying home throughout the day, who comes to the school campus to kill time at Bassa High school in Buchanan, the largest grade school in the second port city of Liberia. The West African nation of Liberia has had many struggles in its long efforts to rebuild, first from its devastating civil war in the 1990s and early 2000s and, now, from Ebola. And one of the hardest struggles has been education. In 2013, after all 25,000 high school students sitting state university entrance exams failed, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf admitted that the education system was "a mess" and called for a complete overhaul. Now it seems Sirleaf's government has decided that rather than overhauling the education system themselves, they're going to pay someone else to do it for them. Under a pilot program called "Partnership Schools for Liberia,"...
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