Internal Efficiency of Free Primary Education in Mombasa District, Kenya.

Background of the Study Before 1990 very few educational systems in Sub-Saharan Africa targeted education for all or had the financial resources to do so. Instead, they provided services targeted mostly toward urban middle-class pupils. Educational systems were bureaucratic, curricula were oriented toward the urban middle class, teacher training programs were long, support and professional development was limited, development and provision of textbooks was slow, and gender, regional, and social inequities were large