Blog post 3-Leaving No One Behind: Can We Scale Up Quality Education in a Post-2015 World?

Summary

This article is all about the UN’s new plan for global education revolving around the idea of “leave no one behind”. This requires putting an emphasis on providing a more quality education especially for countries that are behind. This also entails getting education to demographics that it normally misses in these countries such as young girls in poor families and children with disabilities. This quality of education also needs to make a difference in the child’s life by providing real skills that they will use throughout life. To reach this higher quality, things need to change. The new ideas that are going to be implemented are based on programs that were successful in smaller settings in the hopes that they will have the same effects. The risks are known and being prepared for in taking a small-scale project and expanding it on a global-scale. A necessity in making this a success, resources must be available, which requires global funding, which has been taking hits since 2011 and is still currently suffering. Funding needs to become a priority to improve overall education all over the world.

Analysis

This article deals with global education and finical priorities around the world. Global health gets 16 times more funding than education while education is struggling to provide basics at best in some countries. 250 million children cannot read, write, or do basic math-130 million of these children have already been in school for four years and this is why a higher quality of education needs to be provided. The article also references how different demographics throughout countries lack education more so than others, which we saw in our last discussion.  Young women from poor areas rarely get any form of formal education and these statistics have only gotten worse over time. As the world changes, the amount and type of education needs to change. This is the only way that people are going to be able to keep up with globalization and survive in that new world. The programs that have been tried so far just aren’t cutting it anymore. The idea of “leave no one behind” has the intentions to provide quality education for everybody, emphasis on the quality of the education. There is little point in going to a school where no learning is being done. The first step is getting the children to school, but the priority becomes making sure they are actually learning skills that will help them in all future endeavors no matter how the world changes. The programs that the UN are trying to implement are a good start to help solving this global academic crisis, but they can only do so much without the finical and public support.

This article can be found at this link:

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/education-plus-development/posts/2014/02/19-quality-education-post-2015-winthrop-kharas