10 Statistics for Education for children’s.
1) 67 million out-of-school primary-school-age children, 53 per cent are girls. Of the lower secondary out-of-school adolescents, 52 per cent are girls.
http://www.childinfo.org/education.html
2) In Sub-Saharan Africa , slightly more than half (20 per cent of the total) also attend school. Overall, 60 per cent of all children between 7 and 14 years attend school. 21 per cent of all children are neither in school nor do they engage in labor.
3) If the mother or caretaker has at least primary education, her children are less likely to work than children of caretakers without a formal education. Older children have to spend at least 14 hours on economic work to be counted as child laborers.
4) Children between 7 and 10 years are somewhat more likely to be laborers than children between 11 and 14 years. A boy or girl up to 11 years of age only has to spend one hour on economic work to be considered a child laborer.
http://www.childinfo.org/labour_education.html
5) Nearly a billion people will enter the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their name, and two thirds of them are woman.
6) Based on enrollment data, about 72 million children of primary school age in the developing world were not in school in 2005; 57 per cent of them were girls. And these are regarded as optimistic number.
7) Educated girls and woman are less vulnerable to HIV infection, human trafficking and other forms of exploitation, they are also more likely to marry later, raise fewer children who are more likely to go to school, and make important contributions to family income.
8) Many children who do enroll in school does not graduate with even the most basic reading and math skills because they don’t have enough teachers, books or facilities to provide a quality education.
https://www.problem-solution.org/info/education.cfm
9) http://data.worldbank.org/topic/education
10) Enrollment rates in many countries are now close to 100%, but learning levels are still very low.
http://www.poverty-action.org/remedialeducation?gclid=CN36m_yj0K8CFagZQgodnyK-HQ
Are there cultural, legal and/or physical barriers that prevent anyone from obtaining a quality education?
The most common barrier to accessing the critical information is by simply lacking the understanding of the information’s and to improve someone’s decision making and the overall quality of life. But they don’t appreciate its worth and know where to look for it. The education that uses technology is essential in order to access the electronic information for modern communications.
Are boys and girls treated the same when it comes to literacy and education?
They don’t treat the boys or the girls the same when it comes to education. In educating them, they appear to be applied more liberally to boys than to girls.
http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/papers/genderbias.html
