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From The US Deparment of Education HomeRoom blog
Now is the Time
for Safe and Equal Access to Education for All Children All Over the World
On October 9th 2012, Malala
Yousafzai was on a school bus returning to her home in Pakistan’s Swat Valley.
A masked gunman boarded the bus and asked for her by name. When her classmates
could not help but to glance at her, the gunman approached Malala and shot
three times, hitting her in the head and neck. She was 15 years old and her only
crime was advocating for equal access to education for all children.
On December 8th of this year,
UNICEF declared that 2014 was a devastating year for children. Two
years after the brutal attack on Malala, as many as 10,000 children have been
recruited to fight by armed groups in the Central African Republic. In Syria,
there have been more than 35 attacks on schools and 1.7 million children are
now refugees. And a mere eight days after the UNICEF report was released,
Taliban gunman launched an unimaginable attack on a Pakistani school, killing
132 students.
These are just some
of the challenges that world leaders and non-governmental organizations face in
their efforts to establish a new set of sustainable development goals. Technical
experts and advocates from Save the Children and other groups are
engaging in a series of global consultations on post-2015 education indicators.
What has emerged is this: the only way to offer children a future free of
violence and extreme poverty is to provide every child safe and equitable
access to quality education. Simply counting the number of children in schools
is not enough.
Of course, violence
against children is not limited to countries outside our borders. Speaking to
the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute in
October, Secretary Arne Duncan referenced the impact violence has had on his
own experience. He said, “I saw children who happened to come from a very
violent community; who happened to all be African-American; who happened to be
very poor. Despite many real challenges, many went on to do extraordinary things.”
Duncan also pointed
out that students of color in the U.S. are more likely to be assigned
inexperienced teachers; that they have less access to advanced classes; and
that they are more likely to go to schools with lower-quality facilities, such
as temporary structures. These are circumstances we can and must change.
In October, ED’s
Office of Civil Rights issued guidance to states, school districts, and
schools to help ensure students in the U.S. have equal access to educational
resources. Initiatives such as My
Brother’s Keeper and Excellent Educators for All are designed to
help level the playing field for U.S. students who face an uphill battle in
attaining an education. The goal is to ensure that our children – no matter
their circumstances – have every opportunity to reach their full potential.
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