UNESCO published the 2020 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report, which states that "quality education should be available to every young person in the world - regardless of gender, disability, ethnicity, identity, language or any other factor." 

The report assessed the progress made so far to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 on education in 209 countries while collecting good examples of policies that tackle the exclusion of children from education based on their background or ability. 

Learn more about laws and policies, curricula, textbooks and assessments, teachers, students, parents and communities and many more topic. 

Key findings of the report:

  • during the lockdown disadvantaged learners in 40% of the world's poorest countries have not been supported
  • only 1 in 10 countries had laws on inclusive education 
  • school closure affected 90% of the world's students
  • in 20 poor countries (mainly in sub-Saharan Africa) only very few young women complete secondary education in rural areas 
  • 68% of the countries have a definition for inclusive education, but only 57% of that addresses multiple marginalised groups
  • 25% of the countries have laws to educate students with disabilities separately, 10% to integrate them, 17% to implement inclusive education and the rest combines segregation and mainstreaming 
  • 25% of teachers in 48 education systems articulated the need for professional development to successfully educate students with special needs
  • 41 countries recognise sign language as an official language
  • 23 of the 49 European countries do not address gender and sexual orientation in their curriculum
  • 4 African countries banned pregnant girls from school
  • child marriage is still accepted in 117 countries

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