The Huffington Post – Gabriel Sanchez Zinny
“Education systems are not keeping up with fast-changing global economies, and in advanced and developing countries alike students are not being prepared for the modern workforce. This “skills gap” was the focus for this year’s World Innovation Summit of Education (WISE), an event that brings together thousands of leading education experts and policymakers…Improving education for girls, in particular, occupied a principal place at the two-day conference…as Rebecca Winthrop, head of the Brookings Center for Universal Education, has persuasively argued, educating girls is of the utmost importance. “More educated girls, for example, have healthier children, help reduce infant mortality, and play more active roles in leading their communities and countries,” she writes.”(more)