Global Partnership for Education – Silvia Montoya & Jean-Marc Bernard
“The successful achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals will depend in large part on our degree of success in delivering on Goal 4 on education. Education is “a fundamental right and the basis for progress in every country,” as United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has argued. And as the international community has come to recognize, the educational outcomes that can drive the progress we seek go beyond access to a classroom and depend on the quality of learning available once there. As a result, five of the 10 education targets of SDG 4 focus on learning skills and outcomes of children and adults. This focus on learning is exactly the right move—we need to set our sights on the improvement of learning outcomes for all children. But how?”(more)