May 15, 2015
Categories: Access, Education, Human Rights, Justice, Millennium Development Goals, Resources
Tags: Children, education, human rights
Source: miamistudent.net “We don’t stop, we don’t move backwards. We move forward onto the next movement,” Marian Wright Edelman said, talking about a new civil rights movement that would fight child poverty in America. Edelman spoke in Hall Auditorium Thursday, Feb. 5. She is the first guest speaker to visit Miami this spring in the […]
December 1, 2013
Categories: Competitiveness, Foreign Policy, Millennium Development Goals
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A senior US official visiting Haiti called on Tuesday for greater transparency to improve the quality of education in the Caribbean country’s long-struggling classrooms. Education Secretary Arne Duncan visited classrooms at the Tabarre National School in Port au Prince where the students face obstacles to getting an education. He told the Associate Press he believes […]
May 27, 2013
Categories: Competitiveness, Infrastructure, Millennium Development Goals, Report On Education
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February 2, 2013
Categories: Foreign Policy, Millennium Development Goals, Report On Education, Strategies
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Education and the Post-2015 Development Agenda | Brookings Institution. As the 2015 expiration date for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaches, the goal of achieving universal access to primary education is unlikely to be realized. Worldwide, 61 million children still do not have access to primary school and millions more are in school but not […]
October 8, 2012
Categories: Africa, Millennium Development Goals, Report On Education
Tags: attendance, completion, enrollment
Africa Learning Barometer With less than three years remaining until the 2015 deadline to meet the Millennium Development Goals, there are mounting fears that low income regions – in particular sub-Saharan Africa – are at risk of falling well short of MDG2, which focuses on equal and universal access to primary education. The Africa Learning […]