Leaving No One Behind

Taking the starting point of the focus of the fourth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of ensuring “inclusive and equitable quality education,” tackling disadvantage needs to be a central focus of national education plans, and of the priorities that are needed. As the Incheon Declaration and Framework for Action for the education SDG states: “Inclusive education for all should be ensured by designing and implementing transformative public policies to respond to learners’ diversity and needs, and to address the multiple forms of discrimination … which impede the fulfillment of the right to education.” Beyond a right, investment in equity reaps benefits for individuals and societies.