What is surprising is how little attention is given to providing the literacy and basic education services needed to help these Americans find jobs and advance in the workplace.
This is a serious problem that must be addressed for the students, the community, and the nation, as all will be impacted by these students being sent out into the adult world without the basic education they need to survive and make it.
In short, Mr. President, there can be no significant or sustainable transformation in societies and no significant reduction in poverty until girls receive the quality basic education they need to take their rightful place as equal partners in development.
In short, there can be no significant or sustainable transformation in societies and no significant reduction in poverty until girls receive the quality basic education they need to take their rightful place as equal partners in development.
The strategy, which has been articulated around eight strategic goals and five intervention programmes, is based on an assessment of the basic education needs of rural people.
Today's youth will have to help tackle future environmental threats as adults, yet our students are not being provided with the basic environmental education foundation needed to address these challenges.
Making matters worse, America's low tax-to-GDP ratio – just 27.1%even before the Trump tax cut – means a dearth of money for investment in the infrastructure, education, health care, and basic research needed to ensure future growth.
But these achievements obscure a quality problem: the lack of basic reading materials needed to make education effective.
A second chance for older children UNICEF's Back to School programme provides 750,000 Liberian girls and boys, 20,000 teachers and 3,700 schools with the basic education supplies they need to learn and teach effectively.And for thousands of Liberian children, it is a very special opportunity: this is the first chance they have had to go to school, due to 14 years of fighting in Liberia.
First, building on the impressive record in many places for expanding access to basic education, we need actions to increase access for secondary and tertiary education.
