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Education is the key to a better future for everyone, but millions of kids don’t have the opportunity to go to school. |
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More than 1 in 5 of all primary school-age children are not in school. | |
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At least 875 million adults are illiterate, two-thirds of them women. | |
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In the USA and Europe, nearly 100% of the children go to school. | |
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In Australia, some kids in the outback attend ‘ The School of the Air’. They talk to their teachers on a two-way radio and get assignments through the mail or internet. | |
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In some countries, people believe that girls do not need an education. | |
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In sub-Saharan Africa, about 40% of girls are denied access to an education. | |
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For six years, girls in Afghanistan were not allowed to go to school. In 2002, this changed with the new government. Fewer than one in five women (and one in two men) can read in Afghanistan. | |
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Approximately 90% of blind kids in developing countries have no opportunity to attend school | |
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A children’s version of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child | |
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Cool Planet | |
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kids need to go to school, but not all kids have the opportunity. Schools
are different across the world – some are modern, with lots of new
computers and textbooks, while other kids learn their lessons sitting
outside. Every child needs to learn skills such as reading, writing, math
and science, but schools also teach kids about discipline, their rights
and responsibilities – and how to work and play together.
Keywords
- Ability
- Concepts
- Knowledge
- Illiterate
- Information
- Literacy
- Numercy
- Skills
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Schoolkids in Belize
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Schoolgirl in Nicaragua
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These Sherpa kids study outside. (Nepal)
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Novice monks read a book together. (Tibet)
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Some schools also offer vocational training (Guatemala) |