No Child Forgotten: Education and Inequality Post 2015

Summary

The last decade has seen millions of children’s lives transformed, partly because of the MDGs. Last year there were 50 million fewer children out of school than in 1999. As 2015 approaches, world leaders, civil society, the private sector and others are coming together to renew our collective commitment to ending poverty and confronting global injustice. As they do so it is imperative that this time no child’s chance to learn is forgotten.

The truth is that the MDGs agreed in 2000 did too little to concentrate efforts on the poorest and most marginalized. Of the 61 million still out of school many are from the most disadvantaged groups; likewise, many of the 130 million children who reach the fourth year of school but who are still not learning even the basics will be from disadvantaged households. In short, there are still millions of forgotten children who have been left behind.