TY - BOOK AU - Bruns, Barbara TI - Achieving Universal Primary Education by 2015 SN - 9780821353455 U1 - 379.26 PY - 0000///112003/// CY - New Delhi PB - Manas Publications N2 - One hundred and eighty-nine countries have committed themselves to eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) aimed at eradicating extreme poverty and improving the welfare of their peoples by the year 2015. The second of the goals is: ""Achieve universal primary education,"" with the specific target of ensuring that, by 2015, boys and girls everywhere will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling. Annotation This book seeks to provide answers to the following questions: Where do we stand today in relation to the target of universal primary completion? Is universal primary completion achievable by 2015? What would he required to achieve it? The book includes a CD-ROM containing a "hands-on" version of the simulation model developed by the authors and all of the background data used ER -