The second goal in the
United Nations Millennium Development Goal is to achieve
Universal Primary Education, more specifically, to “ensure that by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike will be able to complete a full course of
primary schooling." Education is vital to meeting all other Millennium Development Goals: "
Educating children]gives the next generation the tools to fight poverty and prevent disease, including malaria and AIDS." Despite the significance of investing in education, the recent report,
Fixing the Broken Promise of Education for All: Findings from the Global Initiative on Out-of-School Children]produced by UNESCO Institute for Statistics and UNICEF found that the world has missed this 2015 target of universal primary education, and there are currently 58 million children, of primary school age,
out of school]worldwide.