Policy Brief: Inclusive education

Published

March 2009

At least 75 million primary-school-aged children around the world have never been to school.

Most of these children aren’t in school because they are poor, or because they are girls, have a disability or are from a minority ethnic group. More than half live in countries affected by conflict.

Global efforts to get all children into school by 2015 will fail unless schools welcome and support the children who are missing out.

This policy brief discusses:

• What’s keeping children out of school?
• What do we mean by inclusive education?
• Existing commitments
• Current state of play
• What Save the Children is calling for

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