Its estimates indicate 28 million school-age children have both parents or their only parent in the work force.
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Nearly four million school days in England were missed last spring and autumn because parents took children out of school to go on holiday.
"It is a global scandal that the vast majority of the more than 110 million school-age children not in school are girls, " said Ms. Bellamy, noting the need for an all-out global effort to crack this major impediment to education for all.
Recently, for example, I was in Nicaragua visiting a new client, a 700-member farmer cooperative that produces coffee for export and corn for domestic consumption The cooperative sells 300 tons of corn annually to its main buyer, the World Food Programme which is used to produce 6.7 million school lunches a year or one meal per day for 44, 000 children for an entire school year.
There are today 250 million children of primary school age who cannot read or write, and some 71 million teenagers who are out of secondary school. 200 million young people in developing countries have not completed primary school.
The forthcoming UNESCO Education For All Global Monitoring Report estimates that some 61 million primary school - age children still have no access to school, while 250 million children who should have reached fourth grade cannot read or write whether they are in school or not.
However, progress has been insufficient to deliver on the international commitment to provide quality basic education for all children, young people and adults: 67 million primary school age children are out of school and 796 million adults are still illiterate.
And nationwide, our 3.2 million public school teachers are rapidly becoming a minority of the 6.8 million (measured in FTEs) K-12 public school employees.
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It shows that young people need the skills taught at primary and lower secondary school to find decent jobs.. In sub-Saharan Africa, about 30 million children are still missing out on primary school and 22 million teenagers are out of secondary school, missing out on vital skills for future employment.
In South and West Asia, about 13 million are still missing out on primary school and 31 million teenagers are out of secondary school, missing out on vital skills for future employment.
The World Bank Group reports that more than 100 million primary school age children around the world remain out of school.
The One in a Million Free School was due to open on 3 September but funding was withdrawn because it had failed to attract enough pupils.
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The Department for Education has signed a funding agreement which means the One in a Million Free School can take its first pupils on 2 September.
With about one million high school seniors creating profiles on Zinch each year, colleges can target kids based on much more granular criteria than if they merely buy names.
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Mr Twigg's comments come less than two weeks after the National Audit Office warned that a quarter of a million extra school places would be needed in England by autumn 2014.
The Department for Education calculates that some 3.9 million full school days were missed in all, based on the premise that each pupil in England should attend school for 380 half-days a year.
He zeroed in on Colorado as a good site because there are 5 million residents and only one medical school. (In Pennsylvania there are 1.5 million residents per med school.) As he was closing on the property near Denver, Tien started wooing supporters.
In the Arab states, about 5 million are still missing out on primary school and almost 4 million teenagers are out of secondary school, missing out on vital skills for future employment.
There are today 250 million children of primary school age who cannot read or write, and some 71 million teenagers who are out of secondary school.
UNESCO: Published in South China Morning Post on 17 October 2012.
In Latin America and the Caribbean, almost 2.7 million children are still missing out on primary school and 1.7 million teenagers are out of secondary school, missing out on vital skills for future employment.
According to the National Federation of State High School Associations, more than 1.1 million high-school boys played contact football in the 2011-2012 school year, which makes the game nearly twice as popular as the No. 2 prep sport, outdoor track and field.
With only three years before the 2015 target date for the MGDs and EFA, , there are still major deficiencies in some countries as 67 million children are still excluded from primary school, almost 800 million adults lack basic literacy skills and too many children are leaving school without the necessary learning and skills that will enable them to enter the job market.
So for example, of the 18 million kids that get school lunch, all 18 million are eligible for summer feeding during the summer when the schools are closed.
While the views of panellists varied widely on the best ways to improve and enhance education, they all agreed that broadband could address educational challenges in a world where 61 million children of primary-school age are not in school, 1.7 million extra teachers are needed and 775 million people, mostly women, are illiterate.
Mr Mitchell also wants to boost education, with an aim of getting six million children into school within two years.
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Under Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, New York City, for example, has been making Herculean efforts to turn around its failing million-student school system.
In the offending column, I was not trying to describe the individual lives of the estimated 1.4 million undocumented high school and college students in the United States.
More than three million high-school students are expected to graduate each year until the 2021-2022 academic year, according to the Department of Education, and many of them are expected to pursue higher education.
Like the OLPC, which has fallen short of its initial goals and only delivered 2.4 million laptops to school children worldwide in the last 7 years, the Aakash project has had its share of problems.
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In the second phase, UNESCO reviewed and printed 9 million copies of primary and secondary school textbooks, which benefited 6 million students throughout Iraq for the academic year 2005-2006.
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