Education - Opportunity Through Learning

This Education Strategy explains the rationale for selecting these three global education goals: 

• Goal One: Improved reading skills for 100 million children in primary grades by 2015;
• Goal Two: Improved ability of tertiary and workforce development programs to generate workforce skills relevant to a country's development goals; and
• Goal Three: Increased equitable access to education in crisis and conflict environments for 15 million learners by 2015. 

The strategy provides illustrative results, activities and measures of success; and links all of these in an illustrative results framework. Important crosscutting issues of concern are discussed, including youth programming, gender equality, marginalized populations and disabled learners, and integrating education with other development priorities. Finally, the strategy promises a "roadmap for implementation" that will provide more detailed guidance to field missions on how USAID will institutionalize its new policies, build a 21st century research agenda, explicitly seek more robust partnerships, and establish new norms and incentives for educational strategic planning and knowledge sharing.