Getting All Children in School – A Goal We’ve Yet To Achieve
More than 15 years ago, the international community rallied in support of universal primary education by 2015 as part of the Millennium Development Goals.
As 2015 nears, it is clear that we will not make the deadline. But not because it can’t be done.
Despite not achieving the goal by 2015, I remain convinced that providing all children with a primary education is not a pie-in-the-sky idea. The reason for my optimism is simple: Those of us toiling in the field of education for the past 15 years have a pretty good idea of what went wrong and what to do differently in the future.