Jun 3, 2016 ... More than half of the 59 million out-of-school children live in ... trends persist, the  world is off-track to reach primary and secondary education for all by 2030. 45  figure 2.3. Many girls and boys drop out as they transition through education .....  To meet the 2030 goals, the pace of progress in the next 15 years ...
Mar 25, 2016 ... The Millennium Development Goals as they were called came with a ... "I think  everyone in the room knows that this is a moment of extraordinary progress,"  Smith told lawmakers. ... in primary school at nearly equal rates, and there are  half as many children out of school today as there were 15 years ago.".
were developed by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) as part of its  mandate ... lower secondary school age (about 12 to 14 years), and 142 million ...  Today, 1 out ... their situation, it is necessary to analyse the upper secondary out- of-school rate ... The global number of out-of-school children of primary school  age has ...
As a sign of "extraordinary progress," "there are half as many (primary-age)  children out of school today as there were 15 years ago." — PolitiFact Global  News ...
Sep 19, 2016 ... education surveys. The data refers to the 2015-16 school year. The ... Today,  there are 16.1 million refugees worldwide under UNHCR's mandate.1 .... action  for the next 15 years. .... children of primary school-age do not go to school. ...  percentage of refugee children in primary education is about half of that.
As a sign of "extraordinary progress," "there are half as many (primary-age) children out of school today as there were 15 years ago."