In sub-Saharan Africa, 56 million youths have not completed primary schooling, about a third of the total.
Only 22% of girls above the age of ten complete primary schooling, compared with 47% of boys.
We are 1.7 million teachers short of what we need to achieve universal primary schooling by 2015.
In the Arab world, 28 million young people, aged between 15 and 25, have not completed primary schooling.
In the Arab world, 28 million young women and men, aged between 15 and 25, have not completed primary schooling.
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At Miami in 1994, the leaders set themselves a modest goal: primary schooling for all children, and secondary for 75% by 2010.
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The latest available information indicates that close to 22 percent of students in this age bracket do not complete primary schooling on time.
Primary schooling is now almost universal, but many teachers are ill-trained.
It is due to such a comprehensive primary schooling system that the Net Enrolment Rate (NER) for primary school in Indonesia reached 95.41 per cent in 2011.
The plans are expected to emphasise the importance of grammar, setting out exactly what children should be expected to be taught in each year of their primary schooling, as well as giving lists of words they should be able to spell.
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Considerable progress has been made in achieving universal access to primary and secondary schooling across racial and ethnic lines.
Up to his final days, he stayed active on behalf of choice in primary and secondary schooling in the U.S. as a means of rescuing millions from poverty.
This eventually translated into a series of government programs, such as state-funded primary and secondary schooling, the adoption of a five-day, forty-hour workweek, elimination of child labor, introduction of welfare and unemployment services, senior income support, workplace safety regulations, environmental regulations, and eventually some form of universal healthcare.
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The education minister, Kapil Sibal, has promised an array of improvements, including universal primary education, partly provided for through private schooling.
The wages of blacks rose relative to those of whites over time for two primary reasons: (1) more schooling and better schooling and (2) the migration of blacks out of the South.
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The dreadful scenes in Northern Ireland in recent weeks of Protestants baying at children going to a local Catholic primary school have also highlighted the dangers of segregated schooling.
One third of Commonwealth countries have yet to achieve universal primary education and gender parity, and 27 million Commonwealth children do not currently receive schooling.
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