International Education Day Facts
Day of this month (January) International Education Day is celebrated on
What is January 24?
Education is a basic human right (T/F)
True
Most common barrier to education worldwide
What is poverty?
An organization that students can support to help global education efforts
Two terms that describe the ability/inability to read, write, and understand basic information
What is literacy & illiteracy?
This organization established International Education Day
What is United Nations (UN)?
This demographic group faces a 50% lower chance of attending secondary school in most of Africa
What are girls?
Many girls and boys in developing countries drop out of school to perform these tasks
What is household/domestic responsibilities, child labor/work, early/forced marriage, pregnancy?
This group of people should be the top priority for funding, training, and support, as they are the most important factor influencing student academic success
What are teachers?
The youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner advocates for girls education
Who is Malala Yousafzai?
This country hosts the United Nations headquarters, where International Day of Education is celebrated
What is the United States?
Only half of refugee children have attended primary school, and less than a quarter have attended secondary school. (T/F)
True
An ongoing global conflict that has created a severe educational crisis
What is Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Gaza, etc.
The demographic that is specifically highlighted for this year's International Day of Education theme for their power to "co-create the future of learning"
What is youth?
Landmark US Supreme Court case that ruled racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional
What is Brown v. Board of Education (1954)?
This year was when International Day of Education established
What is 2018?
The amount of children and adolescents worldwide that are out of school
What is almost 250 million (quarter to a billion)?
Most common PHYSICAL barrier to education worldwide
What is a lack of accessibility?
How individuals can contribute to promoting education on the International Day of Education
What is advocacy, volunteering, donations, spreading awareness, etc?
The 1st university in the United States
What is Harvard University?
LAST year's theme for International Education Day (think technology, something that’s becoming really big in schools right now)
What is "AI and education: Preserving human agency in a world of automation"?
The annual estimated amount of earnings lost by countries that fail to educate girls to the same level as boys
The requirement for this, which many refugee or migrant children do not have, can prevent them from enrolling in public school
What is birth certificate or residency documentation?
This United Nations landmark document outlines 30 fundamental human rights and freedoms for universal protection, with education being one of them
What is Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
Youth literacy rates in these two regions are among the highest worldwide, at 90-100%
What is South America and Europe?