First, the bad news on education. Poverty, armed conflict and other emergencies keep many, many kids around the world out of school.
In fact, in developing regions, kids from the poorest households are four times more likely to be out of school than those of the richest house holds. Now for some good news. Since 2000, there has been enormous progress on the goal to provide primary education to all children world- wide. The primary school enrolment rate in developing regions reached 91%. By measures in any school, that’s a good grade. Now, let’s get an even better grade for all kids and achieve the goal of universal primary and secondary education, affordable vocational training, access to high- er education and more.