The UN's new education goal is ambitious and audacious. It has to be
Julia Gillard, Board Chair of the Global Partnership for Education, is attending the World Education Forum in Korea this week. This meeting is the first step in a series of meetings this year where new goals for the world's development by 2030 will be approved. The goal for education is more ambitious than the MDG was, and Ms. Gillard agrees it has to be to ensure that the 121 million children who can't go to school today are able to in the near future. She calls for increased financing from donors and more efficient ways to work in partnership to make this goal achievable.