Monday is World Teacher’s Day, a UNESCO-supported holiday that honors the critical role teachers play in maintaining education systems across the globe. Organizations in countries like Brazil, Poland, India and Papua New Guinea have planned international celebrations, meant to remind parents and students how important it is to empower qualified and motivated individuals in schools around the world.Ultimately, one of the initial goals behind UNESCO’s efforts was to establish universal primary education by the year 2020, which, according to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, would require countries to recruit a total of 12.6 million primary teachers. But beyond the numbers, …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
