![]() ![]() We need the statistics to capture both aspects: the quantity of education – how many years a child spends at school –, but also the quality of education. Schools are not just about learning – it is where children socialize, they provide safety and often food, and they make it possible for parents to work. ![]() To be clear, we should also keep tracking access to schools. 4 It doesn’t capture whether or not children learn. 3 Even the most prominent index measure of development – the UN’s Human Development Index – only captures attendance. They still very much focus on school attendance. But the international statistics on education have not yet caught up with this reality. Many education systems are failing to ensure that the children who arrive at school every morning actually learn.įor this we need data. What the research shows is that getting children into the classroom is only half the battle. Many children who don’t learn are in school. One obvious reason why many children don’t learn is that they are not in school or that they drop out this is the case for 8% of the world’s children and I discussed this problem before here.īut the problem is bigger than that. ![]()
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