Inside Syrian Refugee Schools: Teachers struggle to create conditions for learning (Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Elizabeth Adelman, Brookings)

The Irada Valley School sits deep within Lebanon’s fertile Bekaa Valley. Visit on a sunny day and the view from the rooftop is equal parts stunning and sobering: expansive blue skies, emerald green fields, majestic mountains, and hundreds of tattered, disintegrating tents. These temporary shelters are home to over a thousand Syrian refugee families, the majority of whom do not have access to public schools. Of the more than 360,000 refugee children (aged 5 to 17) living in Lebanon, 49 percent are out of school.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/education-plus-development/posts/2016/02/09-syrian-refugee-schools-dryden-peterson-adelman