This report reviews syrian refugee education for children in the three neighboring countries with the largest population of refugees turkey lebanon and jordan and analyzes four areas access management society and quality policy implications include prioritizing the urgent need to increase access to education among refugees transitioning from a short term humanitarian response to a longer term development response investing in both government capacity to provide . The low rate of access to education for syrian refugees is a crisis while lebanon turkey and jordan all set policies that enable syrian refugees to have access to public education enrollment is low and actual attendance is unknown many children have been out of school for several years because after their education was interrupted in syria a lack of stable access in the host countries followed lack of education threatens to create a generation of syrian children without the life and . Low access to education is a crisis in refugee host countries at least 542000 syrian refugee children are not attending formal education in lebanon turkey and jordan barriers to access include school space shortages language and curriculum transportation parental docu mentation child labor and early marriage school fees and safety. The syrian civil war that began in 2011 has created an educational crisis in the middle east with more than half a million syrian refugee children in turkey lebanon and jordan not receiving any kind of formal schooling a report from the rand corporation finds the report education of syrian refugee children managing the crisis in turkey lebanon and jordan 114 pages pdf notes that . With four million syrian refugees as of september 2015 there is urgent need to develop both short term and long term approaches to providing education for the children of this population this report reviews syrian refugee education for children in the three neighboring countries with the largest population of refugees turkey lebanon and jordan and analyzes four areas access management society and quality