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Closing the Education Gender Gap (Project Syndicate)
From the article: On this International Day of the Girl, the number of girls not attending school, despite having fallen by 40% since 2000, still stands at 130 million. This represents both a moral and a practical failing, because girls are not receiving the education...
Education takes center stage during Global Goals Week
Commissioners Convene in New York City One year after the Learning Generation report launch, Commission leadership met in New York to review how recommendations have become action and discuss how to best accelerate progress across the four transformations called for...
The future role of teachers and education support professionals
Two weeks ago, I attended the United Kingdom Forum for International Education and Training (UKFIET) annual conference in Oxford. This gathering brought together a wealth of research on teachers, as well as new insights on how to support, develop and motivate the...
UN envoy Brown says donors, governments must up education efforts (DevEx)
From the article: UNITED NATIONS — International donors need to reconsider their aid budgets and invest more in global education in order to combat a dangerous trend that would see more than 200 million children still out of school by 2030, says Gordon Brown, the U.N....
Leaders pay lip service to making crucial investments in education (Financial Times)
From the article: At the heart of the global effort to improve educational attainment is a contradiction. Everyone supports the idea that providing quality education in developing countries is beneficial, but funding by both governments and aid donors continues to...
World leaders commit to tackling global education crisis (UNICEF Press Release)
From the press release: NEW YORK, 20 September 2017 – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres; United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed; heads of state of France, Norway, Malawi and Senegal; and other global education leaders today committed to...
Ensuring quality education for all: progressive universalism
In its Learning Generation report, the Education Commission says that successful education systems must reach everyone, including the most disadvantaged and marginalized children. We will not close the learning gap unless leaders take additional steps to include and...
Sharing the future by building better education systems (Brookings)
From the article: William Gibson, the lauded science fiction novelist, is credited with the saying: “The future is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” Like far too many other profound and attributed quotes, no one seems to be able to pin down whether...