Today a Reader, Tomorrow a Leader

While many organizations are working for global education, a new data from UNESCO shows that 617 million children and adolescents across the world are not achieving the desired or even the minimum level of proficiency levels in reading and mathematics. Globally, six out of ten children are not learning a minimum in reading.

Since last few weeks this has been a serious topic of discussion amongst the organizations working towards Global Education like Bill & Melinda gates Foundation, World Bank, and UNESCO. It has reached to the point of "Global learning crisis. It is reported that children in the low and middle-income countries were really at a disadvantage in terms of better opportunities and wages later in their lives due to poor learning in the primary and secondary schools.

One of the most significant reason for this crisis is the ineptitude of the teacher and secondly but most importantly the lack of reading books apart from the regular text books. It is a fact that the more a person reads the more opens his/her ideas become, the more a person get to know, learn, and it gives one the wings to explore new horizons.

Encouraging children to read story books have been times and again reiterated by the experts. It is a very effective way of helping children learn not just to read and write but learn languages and reading skills. Such reading awareness programs are being organized by a local NGO in Rwanda, and in India. The Delhi Government launched a program in February’2018 called the “Mission Buniyaad” where children had to take a reading level assessment after which based on their levels were enrolled in special classes.

By: Madhuchanda Saxena

Content: https://www.ndtv.com/education/world-bank-warns-global-learning-crisis-why-reading-is-important-for-school-children-1920497?publisher=newsstand