United Earth for Peace

We are all about finding ways to improve the quality of life for all of humanity. First and foremost, we are trying to clothe the naked, house the homeless, feed the hungry, heal the sick and educate the uneducated.

Today, education remains an inaccessible right for millions of children around the world. More than 72 million children of primary education age are not in school and 759 million adults are illiterate and do not have the awareness necessary to improve both their living conditions and those of their children.

In low- and middle-income countries, the share of children living in Learning Poverty (that is, the proportion of 10-year-old children that are unable to read and understand a short age-appropriate text) increased from 57% before the pandemic to an estimated 70% in 2022.

A child’s right to education entails the right to learn. Yet, for too many children across the globe, schooling does not lead to learning.

Over 600 million children worldwide are unable to attain minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics, even though two thirds of them are in school. For out-of-school children, foundational skills in literacy and numeracy are further from grasp.

Children are deprived of education for various reasons. Poverty remains one of the most obstinate barriers. Children living through economic fragility, political instability, conflict or natural disaster are more likely to be cut off from schooling – as are those with disabilities, or from ethnic minorities. In some countries, education opportunities for girls remain severely limited.

Even in schools, a lack of trained teachers, inadequate education materials and poor infrastructure make learning difficult for many students. Others come to class too hungry, ill or exhausted from work or household tasks to benefit from their lessons.

Compounding these inequities is a digital divide of growing concern: Most of the world’s school-aged children do not have internet connection in their homes, restricting their opportunities to further their learning and skills development.

Without quality education, children face considerable barriers to employment later in life. They are more likely to suffer adverse health outcomes and less likely to participate in decisions that affect them – threatening their ability to shape a better future for themselves and their societies.

Source: UN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzsZP9o7SlI

https://www.enchantedlearning.com/

Homeschooling is an educational method; like any other educational method, it can succeed and it can fail. Given its individual nature, homeschooling is prone to far more variability than other educational methods. Parents who choose homeschooling take on a substantial responsibility, often without the aid of state guidance or support. Some children who are homeschooled experience educational neglect, with long-term consequences: upon reaching adulthood, these individuals may struggle to attend college or enter the workforce in a meaningful way. While public school students who struggle academically have access to guidance counselors and other supports, homeschooled students lack access to these resources. In effect, there is no bottom to the cracks through which homeschooled children may fall.

>Many homeschool graduates have shared stories of experiencing educational neglect; these individuals often report that they were expected to educate themselves without support or resources, or to teach their younger siblings.
>Four in five school attendance officers in Kentucky report that they “often” or “sometimes” see parents withdraw children from public school to be homeschooled in order to avoid consequences for chronic truancy.
>Homeschooled students on average perform more poorly in math than students who attend other schools, and that this “math gap” appears to affect formerly homeschooled students’ choice of college major.
>Homeschooled students take the SAT and ACT at far lower rates than they should given their numbers, and data from several states suggests that homeschooled students may be only half as likely as other students to attend college.

Most states lack even the most basic safeguards to ensure children who are homeschooled receive an education that is at least comparable to that offered by our nation’s public school system. There is no educational safety net, or even a pretense of one. This failure to ensure that children who are homeschooled actually receive an education renders the idea that children have a right to an education meaningless. This failure to provide meaningful oversight for homeschooling creates a problem for public schools as well, creating a channel by which children who experience chronic truancy due to family instability can, when pressed, disappear altogether.

Source: responsiblehomeschooling.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzsZP9o7SlI

https://www.enchantedlearning.com/

https://www.enchantedlearning.com/