A Global Education Challenge: Harnessing Corporate Philanthropy to Educate the World's Poor - Brookings Institution

A Global Education Challenge: Harnessing Corporate Philanthropy to Educate the World's Poor - Brookings Institution: "Despite the undeniable benefits of education to society, the educational needs, particularly in the world’s poorest countries, remain strikingly great. There are more than 67 million children not enrolled in primary school around the world, millions of children who are enrolled in school but not really learning, and too few young people are advancing to secondary school (van der Gaag and Adams 2010). Consider, for instance, the number of children unable to read a single word of connected text at the end of grade two: more than 90 pe"