Monday - No School!
Tuesday - Boston Bombing Trial is reaching the end as the jury begins to deliberate. Aaron Hernandez's trial has reached the end and now it's too the jury ... If he is said not-guilty, he has 2 other trials for murder.
An agreement has been struck with Iran in it's nuclear programs. They have to reduce their centrifuges (from 19,000 to 6,000). It would right now take Iran to make a nuclear bomb in about 2-3 months, but with the new agreements it will take them several years to construct in which we would notice by then.
Most girls around the world are supposed to be at home raising kids or maintaining the home.
Every extra year of education can earn 20% money as an adult.
If your mother was educated, the daughters are more likely to go to college.
If India enrolled 1% more girls, their GDP would rise by 5.5 billion.
A child born to a literate mother is 50% more likely to survive past the age of 5.
Globally 66 million school-girls aged are not in school
Access to education has increased over the past twenty years, however, 30% of all girls worldwide are enrolled in secondary school.
Sub-Saharan African there now 76 girls for every 100 boys in upper secondary school. The average girls receives less than 2 years of schooling and never learns to read and write.
In several sub-Saharan nations, the female literacy rate is 50% or less.
Low levels of income acts a barriers to education:
- Many families are not able to afford education so the boys go instead
- As a result of poverty, many families are forced to choose which of their children to send to school
- In many cases, it is the girl that is kept back
In more than 100 countries, the school is not free and many parents cannot afford the tuition cost or uniforms.
Each extra year of secondary school to mothers reduces the probability of infant mortality by 5-10%.
Research indicates that approximately half of recent reductions in child death rates are linked to gains in women's educational attainment.
An extra year of primary school school boosts eventual wages by 10-20%
1% of female increase in education raised the average GDP of a nation by .37% and GDP growth rates by .2%.
Educating girls in one of of the most effective strategies to combat child marriage:
- Remains in school makes her 6x's less likely to marry
- One average, a girl with 7 years of education will marry 4 years later and have 2.2 fewer children
16 million girls ages 15-19 and some 1 million girls under 15 give birth every year.
Complication during pregnancy and childbirth are second cause of death for 15-19 year old girls globally.
Every year some 3 million girls aged 15-19 undergo unsafe abortions.
Babies born to adolescence mother face a substantially higher risk of dying than those born to 20-25 years old.
Wednesday - Class Quiz over Australia.
Obama came to say that climate change is impacting peoples' health (lawsuits galore).
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