UN Goal #4: Quality Education
Obtaining a quality education is the foundation to improving people’s lives and sustainable development.
Education enables upward socioeconomic mobility and is a key to escaping poverty. Over the past decade, major progress was made towards increasing access to education and school enrollment rates at all levels, particularly for girls. Nevertheless, about 260 million children were still out of school in 2018 — nearly one fifth of the global population in that age group. And more than half of all children and adolescents worldwide are not meeting minimum proficiency standards in reading and mathematics.
In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the globe, a majority of countries announced the temporary closure of schools, impacting more than 91 per cent of students worldwide. By April 2020, close to 1.6 billion children and youth were out of school. And nearly 369 million children who rely on school meals needed to look to other sources for daily nutrition…
Primary Goal: By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and Goal-4 effective learning outcomes
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WASIC and the James Brister Society present: The COVID 19 Crisis Response in Education: Confronting Widening Disparities (October 6, 2020)
“On the Cusp: The Women of Penn’64.” by Author Anne Sceia Klein (Photo courtesy of Anne Sceia Klein - April 17, 2019)