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This is part of our year-long series “Millennium Development Goals Tech Roadmap” Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education Target 2A: To ensure that by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling. The results for this goal have been uneven so far. As of 2013, literacy rates were growing among both adults and youth, and the gender gap is narrowing. Primary school enrollment in developing countries reached 90 percent in 2010. However, even after four years of primary education, approximately 250 million children worldwide still can’t read or write. The rate of... read more →