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Goal 4

Quality Education

Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. This goal emphasizes the importance of providing free primary and secondary education for all children, as well as equal access to vocational training, and affordable higher education.

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Goal 4 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aims to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. This goal focuses on ensuring that all girls and boys complete free, equitable, and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes. It also seeks to ensure that all children have access to quality early childhood development, care, and pre-primary education to prepare them for primary education.

The goal emphasizes equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational, and tertiary education, including university. It calls for a substantial increase in the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs, and entrepreneurship.

Since 2000, there has been significant progress towards universal primary education. By 2015, the total enrollment rate in developing regions reached 91 percent, and the worldwide number of children out of school had dropped by almost half. Literacy rates have increased dramatically, and more girls are in school than ever before. These are remarkable successes, but challenges remain.

Progress has been difficult in some developing regions due to high levels of poverty, armed conflicts, and other emergencies. In Western Asia and North Africa, ongoing armed conflicts have increased the number of children out of school, a worrying trend. While Sub-Saharan Africa has made the greatest progress in primary school enrollment among all developing regions—from 52 percent in 1990 to 78 percent in 2012—large disparities still exist. Children from the poorest households are up to four times more likely to be out of school than those from the richest households. Disparities between rural and urban areas also remain high.

Achieving inclusive and quality education for all reaffirms the belief that education is one of the most powerful and proven vehicles for sustainable development. This goal aims to ensure that all girls and boys complete free primary and secondary schooling by 2030. It also aims to provide equal access to affordable vocational training, eliminate gender and wealth disparities, and achieve universal access to quality higher education.

The 20 Biggest Charities|Quality Education

NonprofitMissionSpecializationEIN
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
Education
Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in...Graduate Institutions94-1156365
Yale University
Yale University
Education
To improve the world through research, scholarship, education, preservation, and practice.Graduate Institutions06-0646973
Trustees of Princeton University
Trustees of Princeton University
Education
Princeton university is a private not-for-profit, nonsectarian institution of higher learning and a ...Graduate Institutions21-0634501
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Education
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other ar...Graduate Institutions04-2103594
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
Education
The provision of education, research, and charitable patient care services.Graduate Institutions23-1352685
University of Notre Dame Du Lac
University of Notre Dame Du Lac
Education
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Milton Hershey School & School Trust
Milton Hershey School & School Trust
Education
In keeping with milton and catherine hershey's deed of trust, milton hershey school nurtures and edu...K-12 Schools23-1353340
Columbia University in the City of New York, Trustees of
Columbia University in the City of New York, Trustees of
Education
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Duke University
Duke University
Education
To provide a superior liberal education, to prepare future members of learned professions, to advanc...Graduate Institutions56-0532129
Washington University
Washington University
Education
The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distingu...Graduate Institutions43-0653611
Emory University
Emory University
Education
Emory university's mission is to create, preserve, teach, and apply knowledge in the service of huma...Graduate Institutions58-0566256
New York University
New York University
Education
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 students in 20 schools and institutes.Graduate Institutions13-5562308
Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University
Education
To educate students, to foster independent & original research, and to share benefits discovered.Graduate Institutions52-0595110
Cornell University
Cornell University
Education
Education, research, medical services and other public services.Graduate Institutions15-0532082
Harvard University
Harvard University
Education
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic do...Grad/Postgrad Institutions04-2103580
University of Chicago
University of Chicago
Education
The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the...Graduate Institutions36-2177139
University of Virginia Investment Management Company
University of Virginia Investment Management Company
Education
Uvimco is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virgin...Education Funding56-2462804
University of Southern California
University of Southern California
Education
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Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University
Education
See schedule oGraduate Institutions62-0476822
Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge
Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge
Arts & Culture
To provide world class teaching and research and to promote standards through examination and dissem...Publishing13-1599108