School testing is not only about improving children's education.
Welcoming the progress that has been made in in pre-primary education since 2000, Irina Bokova pointed out that nonetheless only 15 percent children are enrolled in pre-primary education in Sub-Saharan Africa, 19 percent in Arab States, 28 percent in Central Asia and 36 percent South and West Asia.
Because of this, an entire generation of Cambodian children was not only deprived of education but also of educational role models.
Arne makes the point very simply: Our children get only one chance at an education, so we need to get it right.
According to UNESCO figures, only 6.9% of children complete primary education, and less than 2% finish secondary schooling.
These disadvantages are felt particularly acutely for Roma children in Europe: only around 7% of Roma children aged 14 to 18 are enrolled in secondary education in Romania, for example.
When a public system fails, repeatedly, to meet these minimal objectives, parents ask only for a choice in the education of their children.
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Researchers hope that a better understanding of the way the brain works will improve education for all children, not only those with educational problems.
Policies that focus on child-poverty reduction would not only rescue children from hardship but would give the current education system a better chance to work.
This new Report reminds us that education is not only about making sure all children can attend school.
For instance, of the 20, 000-odd Gypsy children of secondary-education age in Montenegro, only three (yes, three) go to school.
According to the OECD, America is one of only three advanced countries which spends less on the education of poorer children than richer ones.
Large amounts of funding go to tertiary education, for example, though only a minority of children make it to that stage and most still lack basic skills.
The assembly's rural affairs sub-committee recently published a report on the future of rural schools, which made it quite clear the main and only factor to be considered was the quality of education offered to children.
Mr Blair is only one of several New Labourites to court controversy over their children's education.
Charging poor children for their education will never make sense, it will only reduce their choices and make their households poorer.
Democrats now sound like elite Republicans, bashing working class people, acting as if only TFA or Broad graduates have a right to an opinion on education, only Harvard graduates understand how to teach poor black children.
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In a statement, Mr Knight said parents did not have the right to withdraw their children from the statutory sex and education part of the curriculum, only the optional PHSE element.
"The National Curriculum science is the only compulsory part of sex and relationships in education in schools and must teach children about how their bodies work to prepare them for growing up and to protect them from harm, " it says.
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It's 112 pages long, it marks a step change in the Welsh Government's willingness to change the law in order to pursue its policies and if passed in its current form, could have a major impact not only on the way education is organised but also, on the way your children and mine are taught.
The vast majority of nationalists -- and everyone else in Northern Ireland, for that matter -- only ever wanted a fair deal, peace, jobs and a good education for their children.
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Aid, too, could be better directed: only 15% of it is earmarked for education and health, and countries where fewest children go to primary school have had the biggest aid cuts this decade.
Everybody agrees and some of you governors have led the way on early education and the consequences for the prospects of success for our children not only of graduating, but avoiding the criminal justice system.
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And if they can pay for only one child to complete school, they often do so by avoiding any education for the children they think are less clever.
But US President Bill Clinton and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said the targets set out at the Okinawa summit were not only to relieve Third World debt but to offer basic education to all the world's children within 15 years and set new targets to combat killer diseases.
What these parents know is that they desperately want their children to have the best possible education, and to have opportunities that they themselves could only imagine.
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Only through accountability--and an underperforming school's losing money--will all children get the education they deserve.
Most older children have been offered drugs but only a small minority use them, the Scottish Council for Research in Education said.
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