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Girls’ Education: When You Educate A Girl, You Educate The Next Generation
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For the girls and women who lives in poverty, for them education is not only the key to a brighter future it is also a key to survival.Using education as a primary strategy, theGirls’ & Women’s Education Initiative aims to harness the potential of girls and women to learn, lead and act on their vision of change for themselves, their families, and their communities.Why gender is considered an issue in education?. Gender refers to attitudes, beliefs and values we have about being male or female.
These attitudes, beliefs and values are influenced by including family, friends, cultural background, media and the wider community. Economics, cultural bias and gender discrimination exclude girls from educational opportunities in the developing world. Yet, the educating girls are the most powerful and effective way to address global poverty–and the single best investment one can make. More than 180 national governments have taken the pledged to achieve gender equality in education by 2015–with special focus on ensuring girls’ full and equal access in achieving high quality of basic education.
Educating of girls is directly linked to positive outcomes:
• Lower infant mortality rates
• Increased eventual wages
• Increased likelihood of educating the next generation
• Improved family health
• Success in combating the spread of HIV/AIDS and other preventable diseases
• Improvement of general economic development
Despite these knowing benefits, girls are less likely send to school than boys and those girls fortunate enough to enroll are likely to drop out when transitioning from primary to secondary school. Investigation brings that girls’ education globally delivers huge returns for economic growth, political participation, women’s health, smaller and more sustainable families, and disease prevention, concludes a new report from the Council’s Center for Universal Education.
How are girls doing?: Success and Challenges
Compared with last two decades ago, more girls are entering school, completing the primary level, and pursuing secondary and tertiary education. In low-income countries alone, average enrollment rates in primary education went upwards of 80 percent, and primary completion rates are now raise to 60 percent. Remarkable complishments have been made towards in achieving gender equality at all the levels of education. Since 1990 the ratio of girls to boys enrolled in school has increased up at all levels of education.
The most significant increase in girls’ education enrollment shown in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia has been shown up at the primary education level. In countries in East Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, the increase in girl’s education has been at the secondary education level while in countries in Europe and Central Asia, girls’ enrollment has raised most at the tertiary education level. Although most developing countries have made considerable progress in educing the gender gap in school enrollment, significant gender gaps remain. The girl’s education inter-linkages between gender inequalities, economic growth and poverty are the main reasons why girls’ education is a smart investment. For developing countries like India to reap these benefits fully, they need to unleash the potential of the human mind. Educating all girls, not just half of them, makes the most sense for future economic growth.
Biggs and Richwine on Teacher Compensation
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Education question by water_skipper: Question for socialists only: How much education should citizens get for free?
Question for socialists only: How much education should citizens get for free? I can’t find the data, but I know I saw a chart showing how countries with low education are very poor and countries with lots of education are much better off financially. So it stands to logic if a country were to give every citizen a free PhD quality education it’s per capita income would be highest in the world. Would you support this? Why or why not?
Education best answer:
Answer by IndianaJohn
Germans gets free education up through college
You mean like in Detroit.LOL
If there is a workable way to give everyone a free education, then of course I’d support it. What kind of monsters would refuse education to the poor and thus doom them to coninuing poverty?
Most developed nations, you get as much education as you qualify for. Pass the entrance exam and you can to go any university, at public expense. They know that education benefits -everyone-, and that college educated people pay back the cost of their education many times over in taxes.
In the US we see it differently. We seem to want children to get only as good an education as their parents can afford. This gives the children of wealthier parents an advantage in getting into the better colleges and getting the better jobs. It also provides a large pool of exploitable unskilled labor, holding down the cost of labor.
After WWI we had the largest percentage of college graduates in the world because of the GI Bill. Those were the best times here in the US, the time of lowest unemployment, fastest technological development, etc.
Also consider that we have always prided ourselves on ‘social mobility’, the idea that a kid born in poverty could rise out of his situation to become successful in life. But the driver for social mobility, the thing that makes it work, is public education. Education is the ONLY way for a kid born poor to become rich and successful. If poorer kids get a worse education they will just stay poor, cost us in government programs and fill our jails and prisons. It seems like conservatives would rather spend the money on welfare and prisons than on schools! In fact here in California where I live we can’t build prisons fast enough, and consequently we don’t have money for education. Politicians have seriously suggested we close some of our state college campuses and convert them to prisons.
1) Not all people are capable of functioning at the university level. Not all of those are willing or even want a PhD.
2) The country in the western hemisphere with the highest level of general educational attainment is Cuba.
3) Free isn’t free. I think There should be community support through Vo-tech or junior college. And scholarships to qualified students (based on academic merit) for a 4 year degree.
nothing is free
Certainly Cuba has an excellent education system,possibly the best in the “Third World”.In England state education means it is free up to leaving school,but a student-loan system is in place for Universities.Until 1990 it was a grant system.Of course those with disposable income can go private and produce people like David Cameron,who went to Eton and is married to a Sainsbury heiress !!
That wouldnt work in the United States cause then they would have to divert alot of the taxpayers money from fattening the politicians wallets, free medical and social services for illegals, free welfare for Americans not willing to get a job and all of the other liberal programs that deplete American tax payer dollars. I would be all for it but all the people benefiting from the above are too entrenched in our federal liberal government wont stop giving to everybody that doesnt earn it and taking 33% of earnings away from those that work hard.
Somebody gave me a thumbs down. Either you are one of the illegals collecting American social services or one of the politicians getting fatter off tax payers money. Didnt mean to insult you. Just hate having to support you when you are working off the books and taking from a system you are not contributing to
Look at Cuba to buck that trend, and look to Scandinavia to support it.
The problem with making any real equivalence is that it is easy to give someone an official qualification, when they don’t deserve it.
A good example is the UK, “A” levels used to require a lot of study and retained knowledge, and individual reasoning, up to about 1980, but now a trained monkey could pass one.
If everyone had a good education and qualification, who would do the dirty work, on which every economy depends
to the person who said conservatives want to support welfare, uh, no they don’t
I think that there should be free primary and secondary and that third level should have an income related test. This way funds can be loosened up to help the most disadvantage and that the money isn’t waisted as an electoral gift to the middle class.