Improving Education So Children and Societies Can Prosper

摘要

Outside of the family, schools are the main place where young people learn the skills they will need to succeed as adults. Education acts as a “social vaccine,” protecting individuals from child marriage and unintended pregnancy, improving their health and later their children’s health. It gives them skills to earn a living when they reach adulthood. Education plays a major role in national economic development. Progress has been made toward meeting Millennium Development Goal number 2— Achieve Universal Primary Education—but the quality of that education is often inadequate. This issue of Momentum describes our efforts to improve the quality of schooling and to keep more children, especially girls, in school.