Giving Compass' Take:

· The world has made a great amount of progress in education within the last 15 years, but there is still more work to be done. The Gates Foundation shares their goals to improve global education and the strategy they plan to use throughout the next four years.

· How will improving global education impact the overall being of the world? What role does education play in global development? 

· Learn more about the Gates Foundation's new global education strategy. 

The world has made tremendous progress in education over the past 15 years: The number of primary-aged children out of school has been cut almost in half, and more than 90 percent of primary-aged students are in school. Importantly, girls are attending school in increasing numbers, and the gender parity index has improved. But the job is not finished.

Attending school is not the same as learning. Millions of students are in school but learning very little. In many countries low and lower-middle income countries, fewer than one in three students is proficient in reading, and fewer than two in five are proficient in mathematics.

Studies show that students who cannot read by third grade fall behind, often with no opportunity to catch up. This learning crisis threatens to hold back hundreds of millions of students—and scores of countries—from reaching their full potential.

Read the full article about global education at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.