The Sprint to the 2015 Development Goals: Reaching the Marginalized with Quality Education and Learning

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The global community has 1,000 days left to meet the Millennium Development Goals. Success in getting all girls and boys in school and learning by 2015 will depend on driving support to the countries and communities that are the most left behind. The eve of International Monetary Fund-World Bank Spring Meetings presents an important window of opportunity to highlight the concrete actions needed for reaching the marginalized and accelerating progress in universal education and learning.

On April 17, the Center for Universal Education at Brookings hosted a discussion on two of the major roadblocks that are preventing all children from entering and staying in school: the financing gap and the quality gap. With donor aid for education decreasing and the health sector receiving 16 times more financing from the private sector than education, there is an urgent need to make more effective use of existing resources to education and to find new ways of significantly increasing resources available. In addition to resources, the quality of education is holding back progress, and new data shows the growing disparities between and within countries in providing all children equal opportunities to learn and complete their education. Panelists debated the best ways of addressing both of these important issues.

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