Slate – Joshua Keating
“At the most recent General Assembly, the United Nations rolled out the new Sustainable Development Goals, an ambitious blueprint to eradicate extreme poverty by the year 2030. The SDGs replace the Millennium Development Goals that helped define the global development agenda for the past 15 years. One of those goals was to ensure universal access to primary education. Progress was impressive, but the goal was missed: Primary school enrollment increased from 83 percent in 2000 to 91 percent today. That leaves 57 million children still out of school. The new goals seek to finish that job as well as accomplish a few more ambitious tasks including universal secondary school education, universal access to early childhood education, and ending gender disparities at all levels of education. Getting there is going to take a lot of political will and a lot of money.”(more)