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03-02-2011, 03:20 PM
The Latin America and the Caribbean region is on the verge of achieving universal primary education, which reached 95% of the child population in 2008. The inequality in the region is the main stumbling block for achieving 100% coverage. According to UNESCO, about 40% of the countries in the region have achieved this goal, 20% are nearly there, although 2.9 million children remain outside the system, which is about 4% of the total number of potential students. El Caribe reports that UNESCO Regional Director Jorge Sequeira presented the 2011 Education for All Global Monitoring Report on Latin America and the Caribbean that shows the progress made towards the fulfillment of the six objectives that the UN agency set out in 2000 for education by the year 2015.
He said that Latin America was the "region where most progress has occurred," and identified problems in the Caribbean where the primary education index fell by 9%. While it is true that the countries in the area have provided universal primary education, the situation continues to be critical in Dominica, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic where school attendance is between 76% and 82%. The document says "there are still many children without schools in the region.
The second United Nations Millennium Development Goal is universal primary education by 2015. The study says that the proportion of children that reaches the last grade of primary education was said to be 86% in 2007, and while between 1999 and 2007 school dropout rates were lowered in Belize, Colombia, El Salvador and Guatemala, while they increased in Aruba, Chile, Panama, Dominican Republic and Venezuela. The report indicates that the primary school dropout rate in the Dominican Republic is 14% and that only 12% of low-income students who start high school will complete their studies, compared to 62% of those from higher income brackets.
www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/leading-the-international-agenda/efareport/ (http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/leading-the-international-agenda/efareport/)
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He said that Latin America was the "region where most progress has occurred," and identified problems in the Caribbean where the primary education index fell by 9%. While it is true that the countries in the area have provided universal primary education, the situation continues to be critical in Dominica, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic where school attendance is between 76% and 82%. The document says "there are still many children without schools in the region.
The second United Nations Millennium Development Goal is universal primary education by 2015. The study says that the proportion of children that reaches the last grade of primary education was said to be 86% in 2007, and while between 1999 and 2007 school dropout rates were lowered in Belize, Colombia, El Salvador and Guatemala, while they increased in Aruba, Chile, Panama, Dominican Republic and Venezuela. The report indicates that the primary school dropout rate in the Dominican Republic is 14% and that only 12% of low-income students who start high school will complete their studies, compared to 62% of those from higher income brackets.
www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/leading-the-international-agenda/efareport/ (http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/leading-the-international-agenda/efareport/)
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