#goal4

Quality education is a powerful thing. It reduces poverty, fosters economic prosperity, changes attitudes to empower women and improves health. It is vital that every child goes to school, however access alone is not enough. Ensuring that each children are going to school and learning is a must. More children are going to school now than before. But access to education is still a big problem and many children that have the ability to access don’t have the opportunity to actually learn.

Still millions of children are unable to read, write or count whether they have been to school or not. The two big challenges we face is the lack of qualifying teachers and lack of infrastructure. In one out of four countries, more than half of children failed to meet minimum math proficiency standards at the end of primary school, and at the lower secondary level, the rate was 1 in 3 countries. Students suffer from very basic problems, they don’t have access to learning facilities and materials. In some countries there is only one textbook for every fourteen students and in some schools, there are no toilets, forcing girls to drop out. SDG Goal 4 targets for learning outcomes, early childhood education, effective learning environments and to ensure that, by 2030, all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education.

To achieve quality education we must train, equip, value and support quality teachers, improve data collection, stating right policy priorities, create curricular for equitable world and transform classrooms into collaborative community settings and increase global investment in education.

Quality education is a powerful thing. It reduces poverty, fosters economic prosperity, changes attitudes to empower women and improves health. It is vital that every child goes to school, however access alone is not enough. Ensuring that each children are going to school and learning is a must. More children are going to school now than before. But access to education is still a big problem and many children that have the ability to access don’t have the opportunity to actually learn.

Still millions of children are unable to read, write or count whether they have been to school or not. The two big challenges we face is the lack of qualifying teachers and lack of infrastructure. In one out of four countries, more than half of children failed to meet minimum math proficiency standards at the end of primary school, and at the lower secondary level, the rate was 1 in 3 countries. Students suffer from very basic problems, they don’t have access to learning facilities and materials. In some countries there is only one textbook for every fourteen students and in some schools, there are no toilets, forcing girls to drop out. SDG Goal 4 targets for learning outcomes, early childhood education, effective learning environments and to ensure that, by 2030, all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education.

To achieve quality education we must train, equip, value and support quality teachers, improve data collection, stating right policy priorities, create curricular for equitable world and transform classrooms into collaborative community settings and increase global investment in education.