The Huffington Post – Julia Gillard
“This year marks a decade and a half since the international community committed to address the vast and complex problem of educating all of the world’s primary school-aged children. It’s a time to reassess the next steps in the global education movement and to make some big decisions about bringing those steps to life in the next 15 years. To be sure, we’ve seen encouraging progress since 2000, when — following the Education for All initiative and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) — donor countries and developing countries alike began to devote more resources to strengthening education systems in many of the poorest, least-developed countries across the world. Those efforts played a role in reducing the number of out-of-school children of primary and lower secondary school age by almost 40 percent from about 197 million in 2000 to approximately 121 million in 2012 (the last available figure).”(more)