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Global Action Week!
Learning Forum
2008-04-28

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GCE Breaks World Record!
April 2008
More than 11, 600 Canadians - from Victoria, BC to Hammond Plains NS and Qikiqtarjuaq NU - joined 7.5 million children, adults, teachers and campaigners in over 100 countries around the world to break a world record for the World's Biggest Lesson as part of the Global Campaign for Education's Global Action Week!

The world record for the largest simultaneous lesson in history has been broken already - and the numbers are still coming in. The World's Biggest Lesson focused on providing a quality basic education to everyone, especially the 72 million children and 774 million adults who are currently missing out. All over the world Politicians and Ministers - including 5 Canadian MPs, 4 MPPS, and numerous local officials - went back to school, were taught the lesson by children and asked what they planned to do to make sure everyone gets a quality education.

The World's Biggest Lesson was the highlight of the Global Campaign for Education's (GCE)'s Action Week which is taking place 21^st - 27^th April. Every year civil society across the world takes part in this week that pressurizes all governments to keep their promises and meet the Education for All goals, which were signed up to by 164 governments in Dakar in April 2000. With the phenomenal success of the World's Biggest Lesson, 2008 is having the biggest Action Week since the beginning of the Global Campaign for Education in 1999.

To view an updated list of the schools in Canada, click here.

To see what going on around the world for Global Action Week, visit the GCE website.

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Education in Conflict Affected States: Learning Forum
March 2008
The CGCE will soon host our annual learning forum on April 28, 2008. The theme for this year's event is Education for Children in Conflict Affected States. Please see the attached flyer and registration form for more information. Click here for more information.

Rich countries not up to scratch!
May 2007
On the eve of an exceptional high-level event, the Global Campaign for Education (GCE) released their 2007 report card, which shows a significant fall in rich country aid to funding basic education in the poor world. Canada's status as a "C" country is unchanged. Read the narrative report and view the report cards..

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