The Global Campaign For Education (GCE) has released its 2009 school reports, detailing its assessment of the performances of 22 governments towards achieving the Education for All goals.  Canada receives an overall grade of C. Although Canada has been a leader in supporting those countries most in need, we continue to punch below our weight in providing our fair share of the EFA financing gap. Download the school reports here

The 2010 Report, Reaching the Marginalized, charts some spectacular advances in education over the past decade, but also highlights the plight of those that are hardest to reach. The aftershock of the global financial crisis threatens to deprive millions of children in the world’s poorest countries of an education, the 2010 Education for All GMR warns.

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On January 8, 2010 Queen Rania Al Abdullah, co-chair of the 1GOAL: Education for All campaign, was interviewed on CBC’s The Current by guest host Shania Twain. Queen Rania highlighted the need for urgent international action to reach the Education for All goals by 2015 and get every child into school. “We’re two-thirds of the way there, but we’ve only done one-third of the work!”

Hear the full interview from the CBC archive.