Education by alison baldwin

Got Education?

Education: How difficult would your life be if you couldn’t read? “Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.”

-Edward Everett

There is a huge lack of education in schools around the world some kids don’t even have the opportunity to go to school. Economic and political conditions make it nearly impossible for children around the world to get an education. In most developing countries school is not free. The fees hat come along with school deter many children from enrolling.

Literacy Rate: World wide: Ethiopia: 35.9%

Men: 87%

Haiti: 61%

Women: 77%

Ghana: 64. 2%

Total: 82%

Egypt: 71.4% Cote D’Ivorie: 48.7%

For every 100 boys out of school there are 117 girls in the same situation.

Chad: 25.7%

or every 100 boys out of school there are 117 girls in the same

Almost 115 million children of primary school age are not enrolled situation. in school. More than 226 million children do not attend Almost 115 million children ofsecondary primaryschool. school

school.

Bangladesh: 52.5% Afgnanistan: 28%

age are not enrolled in

More than 226 million children do not attend secondary school.

Education: Who is educated?

Newsle Did you know?!?! One in five adults in the developing world — almost 862 million people — can’t read or write.

“The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth.” Erasmus

Most illiterate persons are female. In more than 20 developing nations, illiteracy rates amongst women exceed 70% As much as 115 million children of primary school age are not enrolled in school. More than 226 million children do not attend secondary school In most developing -Students in Australia attend school for over 200 days a year. The average class size is countries, public eighteen students and there are about six computers per classroom. school is not free. -Math, geography, history, science, Portuguese, and physical education are the main Thee costs of subjects studied by students in Brazil. Many schools can barely afford to teach those books, uniforms, subjects, which means that courses like art and music are often left out in poorer areas. and teachers’ The average class size is 30 or more students. Most schools do not have a computer in salaries are the classrooms, or only have one or two computers for 30 students to share. borne by the students’ -In China there are 21 students in each classroom. All Chinese students study from families. textbooks that emphasize China’s unity, past and present accomplishments, and its future.

Education: Would you let your children live without the proper education? Location: the western third of the island of Hispaniola, between the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea Capital: Port-au-Prince Population: 9,648,924 Size: 27,750 square kilometers Languages: French (official), Creole (official) Child Mortality Rate: 72/1,000 (2008 estimate) Life Expectancy: Male: 55.83 years, Female: 59.35 years Religions: Christian 96% none 1%, other 3%

Access to clean water: Urban: 70%, Rural: 51% (2006 estimate) Literacy rate: Male: 54.8%, Female: 51.2% Doctor to patient ratio: 1 to 1,250

Population living on less than $2/day: 55% History: Haiti has been controlled by other people/countries since it was discovered. Spanish people are the first ones that controlled Haiti. We are now the country that controls Haiti. Because Haiti has always been controlled by different places, it has never really been a stable place. Around a year ago Haiti had a bad earthquake that caused their education to suffer more. Education is something that should be a main priority all over the world, but it is not. Haiti needs help to be able to increase their education, because it needs to change so their children can make a living for themselves.

Did You Know? -over half the population of Haiti is illiterate -Many people live on less than $1 a day, so they do not have the money to put their children in school. -The government does not fund the public schools enough. -Even though private schools can be as little as $20 a year, many families cannot afford that. -Hope for Haiti currently supports over 300 children with their education.

Education: What would you do if you did not have the proper education? Current Situation: There are too many people in Haiti that need education and there are not enough schools to provide the best education for the children. After the earthquake a year ago, 80% of their schools were damaged. That cut the small education system down a lot more. There are around 3.8 million children that need to go to school, but many of those children cannot go to school and the children that do go to school do not always get the proper amount of education. Case Study: Carrol Faubert from Abacus International Management did a case study in Haiti dealing with the education of different people. The findings were that the people in Haiti did not have the sufficient funds for everyone to get the correct education for them to do what they need to have a good enough country. Solutions: We could help with funding for more schools. People could go and help with the building/rebuilding of the schools in Haiti. If everyone took a little of their time or a little of their paycheck to support the building of schools in Haiti, then it could make a big difference.

Education: Wouldn’t you want your child to have the best education?

Questions: 1) How do you

What the government should do?

The current issue with education through the government’s eyes is that they are looking at things to in the budget to cut out. They look at education and assume that a small budget cut of 100million education? dollars will have very little effect on the way education is being done 2) What is your with. Many schools throughout Indiana are feeling the intense restrictions of the budget cuts to a point where townships are opinion on severe dropping schools. This takes away the opportunity of students budget cuts on because now they have to start at a new school where they may be in a class of 30 instead of the 15 they were originally in. Another education? problem they are doing is cutting teachers. This is also a big problem because as of right now, teachers really aren't getting paid 3) Do you think teachers that much, and yet you cut them? That’s a major problem. Despite should be based on how all problems, there are six bills currently at the senate house right now seeking approval to help fund education more. 10million dollars well a student scores? will help a lot, but in order to give America the best education, we 4) Do you believe teachers have to dig a little deeper than what you may intend on wanting to spend, but can you really put a price on education? feel about American

should be paid more or less?

5) If you could change one

Answers:

thing on education, what would it be?

Out of a study of ten random adults, it has shown that they all agree in some aspect that though education is good, but needs to get better because their children are going to be the future president or the next doctor performing surgery on you.

Every child has the right to an education. www.edu.gov