TED Ideas Worth Spreading: The Global Learning Crisis - and What to Do about It

More than a quarter of a billion children are out of school. Millions more are in school but failing to learn. This is a crisis we cannot afford to ignore. 

Today, TED.com features Commissioner Amel Karboul’s new TED Talk, "The global learning crisis – and what to do about it." Dr. Karboul warns that unless we change course now, we will leave behind half of all the world’s children – 800 million of them – by 2030. “The most important infrastructure we have is educated minds,” she tells us. But we’re failing to invest in them the way we would with more visible projects like bridges and roads.

Commissioner Karboul presents an idea worth sharing: Let’s change the way we fund and deliver education to get all children in school and learning. We can do it in one generation. The stakes could not be higher. As Commissioner Karboul asserts, “Quality education for all is a freedom fight we’ve got to win.”
The global learning crisis – and what to do about it.