This article is powerful in terms of the numbers shared but also in the ability of Coughlan to put a face on the numbers describing the state of primary education around the world.According to the report, the world will fall far short of the UNESCO goal of providing access to primary schools for all children by 2015. Coughlan quotes the report in saying that at the present rate of growth in access to primary schools, it will be 2086 before the goal is achieved, leaving 57 million youngsters without access. Among other things, Coughlan says "In poor countries, one in four young people is unable to read a single sentence." The article, found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25811704, is worth the time you would spend reading it. It will raise a long list of issues that all cultures and societies should consider as implications from this situation. All of these are interesting, but one particular issue cited stands in strong relief: Wasted Funds and Resources. That one alone should attract each of you as readers of the whole article. (I owe a big thanks to one of my graduate students for sharing this with me: thanks, Heather Joann).
What would you say, from the list provided by the report, would you say will present the greatest challenges to parents? society? teachers? schools?
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