The timeframe for achieving SDG 4 is tight but many efforts are underway to embed SDG Target 4.7 themes and integrate social and emotional learning (SEL) into policies, programs, curricula, materials and practice. While much of the work on SEL to date is located in high and upper-middle income countries, the NISSEM Global Briefs features 42 essays, interviews and reports from over 60 contributors describing promising, up-to-the-minute work in low-and-middle-income countries. 

Latest World Bank research shows that only half of children in low- and middle-income countries can read and understand a short story by late primary age. Eliminating this learning poverty is as urgent a development objective as eliminating hunger, stunting, and extreme poverty. Meeting that objective requires taking forceful and urgent action. 

The 74th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 74) will open on 17 September 2019. The first day of the high-level General Debate will be Tuesday, 24 September 2019.

Join the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) for a reception event "Innovating for Education: Accelerating progress towards SDG4" during the UN General Assembly 2019. The event will highlight the importance and impact of fostering innovation in the education sector to deliver results for SDG4.

On September 25th the “Leave No One Behind: Accelerating the SDGs through Quality Education” event – hosted by Education Cannot Wait and the Education Commission, in partnership with Global Citizen – will bring together youth advocates and celebrity champions to encourage representatives of Member States, UN agencies, multilateral organizations, civil society organizations, and the private sector to pledge support for ECW as it accelerates its work to reach those furthest left behind in crises with quality education.