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Slow progress in getting more children into classes around world

About 285.4 million children, adolescents, and youth, or one-sixth of all those globally in this age group, lack an education.

Afghan children in school in southern Helmand Province's Garmsir District
Afghan children in the first school in southern Helmand Province's Garmsir District built by local government with help from coalition forces (AN/Reece Lodder)

WASHINGTON (AN) — Over the past decade, there has been only slight progress in sending more children to classrooms worldwide and around one-sixth of school-age kids are not getting an education, UNESCO reported.

The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization said on Friday its latest data on the world’s out-of-school children reveals about 258.4 million children, adolescents and youth were out of school last year, representing one-sixth of the global population of this age group.

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