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Universal Primary Education

Smarter Girls Make for Smarter Futures

Vivian Glyck | Posted 09.13.2011 | Impact
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Vivian Glyck

It doesn't take long to see that there are few better ways to change the course of the world than to get girls into school and to keep them there. Fur...

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Why a School Is More Than Just a Building

Vivian Glyck | Posted 09.05.2011 | Impact
Read More: Project Universal Education, Ugandan Education, Just Like My Child, Universal-Primary-Education, Education, Impact News
Vivian Glyck

Nearly a million kids showed up for "free" school and the government could not afford the giant cost to make sure the schools were running effectively.

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Global Education Goal Falling Short: 67 Million Kids Not In School, UN Reports

AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Global Poverty, Global Education, Children, Unesco, Ban Ki-Moon, Universal Primary Education, United Nations, Millenium Development Goal, Impact News

UNITED NATIONS — With the 2015 U.N. target for ensuring universal primary education fast approaching, the U.N. education agency warned Tuesday t...

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Education: A Possible Dream

Irina Bokova | Posted 04.17.2013 | Impact
Read More: Bharti Foundation, Girls Education Brazil, Libya Girls Education, Universal Primary Education Millenium Development Goals, Girls Education Unesco, Unesco, Irina Bokova, Global Girls Education, Unesco Journeys to School, Un Gobal Poll for a Better World, Girls Education, Universal Primary Education, Malala Yousafzai, Impact News
Irina Bokova

Universal Primary Education is set as a United Nations Millennium Development Goal, to be achieved by 2015. A great deal of progress has certainly been made, but at 18 months from the target date, we are not on track to meet these goals.

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