Blog 1: "Education, Employment, and Youth Today", 2/7/2014, 3:23pm

 Summary: 

The article “Education, Employment, and Youth Today”, brings forth the correlation between poverty and education. An annual update reviewing the status of education of the United Nations was released last week. The review revealed that the many of the educational goals of the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) will not be met by their preferred year of 2013. If the current trends continue less than half of the 141 countries will reach an 80 percentile of pre-primary enrollment education rates that they desire to have. They note that education is one of the key factors that will contribute to the elimination of poverty. An example used by the UNESCO is that children with educated parents were more likely to life themselves out of their poverty. The World Literacy Foundation states that illiteracy contributes to 1.19 trillion dollars of global costs. The ILO ( International Labour Organization)released that the Global Employment trends report revealed that the unemployment rate went up 5 million in 2013. Although the movement by the UNESCO to increase the level of educational attainment is being enforced, it still has yet to meet their goals.

Analysis:

This article highlights the importance of having an education to contribute to the prevention of poverty. The fewer the children that are education, the higher the rates of poverty will be. It isn’t only up to the educators of children to push the importance of education, but it is also in the best interest of the child to see their parents encouraging them to further their education. It is also not in the best interest of the job market to have people that are all education in the same exact field having the same exact level of education because everyone can’t have the same exact job, this is why it is vital for students to get the most education that they can achieve. This article highlights the importance of having an educated mother to have nutritional health (being well nourished) and this brings forth a distinction of gender roles. Women account for most of the illiterate people in the world, maybe this is because of the expectations that are put on them to spend so much time with their children that they can’t teach themselves. Or maybe even children aren’t being taught how to read and write because their mothers are so wrapped up in teaching themselves how to do it that they can’t teach their children. Lack of education is the greatest barrier that is holding these children back from being accepted into the labor market. In order for the UNESCO to reach their goals in reference to education, they may need to take note of what plans they devised that are not contributing to education and revise them so that they can provide the maximum amount of education for the maximum number of people that they desire. 

 http://blogs.cfr.org/development-channel/2014/02/07/education-employment-and-youth-today/