The Education Gap around the World – It’s going to take another 100 years to fill it

In the last 200 years, the number of children attending primary school globally has grown from 2.3 million to 700 million today, covering nearly 90 percent of the world’s school-age children. But the gulf in average levels of education between rich and poor countries remains huge. Without a fundamental rethinking of current approaches to education, it’s going to take another 100 years for children in developing countries to reach the education levels achieved in developed countries. Something needs to change.

Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor. Read the whole story at Why wait 100 years? Bridging the gap in global education | Brookings Institution.