Title: Keeping the Promise: Five Benefits of Girls' Secondary Education
Abstract: Countries around the world have achieved huge gains in primary education reaching a world average of 83.8 percent in net primary enrollment. However large numbers of students still do not complete primary education and even fewer continue on to secondary school. Since so few children complete primary school those who do must be able to continue their schooling. It is the only way for students and society to reap the full benefits of their initial investment in a literate educated population. Currently 83.8 percent of children worldwide attend primary school but the rate drops to 59.3 percent for secondary school. In sub-Saharan Africa only 17 percent of the girls are enrolled in secondary school. A renewed push to ensure that girls worldwide have access to secondary as well as primary education is necessary now if the investments made are to pay off. (excerpt)
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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