UNSDG #4: Quality Education
Obtaining a quality education is the foundation to creating sustainable development. In addition to improving quality of life, access to inclusive education can help equip locals with the tools required to develop innovative solutions to the world’s greatest problems.
Over 265 million children are currently out of school and 22% of them are of primary school age. Additionally, even the children who are attending schools are lacking basic skills in reading and math. In the past decade, major progress has been made towards increasing access to education at all levels and increasing enrollment rates in schools particularly for women and girls. Basic literacy skills have improved tremendously, yet bolder efforts are needed to make even greater strides for achieving universal education goals. For example, the world has achieved equality in primary education between girls and boys, but few countries have achieved that target at all levels of education.
The reasons for lack of quality education are due to lack of adequately trained teachers, poor conditions of schools and equity issues related to opportunities provided to rural children. For quality education to be provided to the children of impoverished families, investment is needed in educational scholarships, teacher training workshops, school building and improvement of water and electricity access to schools.
UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Four-day School Weeks in Illinois High Schools Katherine Mayer '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy A four-day school week benefits students at IMSA and other schools that have piloted a four-day school week. Our proposal is to educate about the benefits of four-day school weeks at Illinois high schools. The benefits of this school schedule include less financial pressure on schools, less teacher turnover, higher staff morale, lower transportation costs and improved scores in reading ... Read More 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM |
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Sophia Ait Boucherbil '24, Illinois Math and Science Academy The problem we decided to create a solution for is the education gap due to poverty, specifically for children within the city of Chicago. The main issues within this problem that we decided to focus on is that many children born into poverty lack the resources or help they need to be successful in school. As a result, they ... Read More 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM |
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Dominik Kozbiel '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy The biggest issue that we identified on campus was a difficulty with setting up plans on campus. One of the pain points we identified was that its hard to get imsa students to meet up, and group chats are incredibly confusing because they can get flooded. Our target audience is imsa students, for obvious reasons. Our solution is an app ... Read More 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM |
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Spreading Awareness about Discrimination and Disparities in Education Abigail Botello '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy The goal of our Student Leadership Exchange (SLX) project is to spread awareness about racial discrimination and socioeconomic disparities within education. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (UN SDG) that connects to this is Quality Education, or UN SDG number four. In the American education system, factors such as race and socioeconomic status play a large role in creating ... Read More 9:55 AM - 10:15 AM |
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The Effectiveness of Online Education and How It Can Be Improved David Biruduganti '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy In our presentation, we will be discussing the impacts of online learning on students' lives. We will include various graphs and charts that clearly convey specific aspects of these impacts, and we will propose new methods that would be able to improve online learning. We will also talk about how to best undo the damage caused by remote education ... Read More 9:55 AM - 10:15 AM |
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Charles Conner '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy To put it plainly, standardized exams need to change. Nobody looks forward to the next time they have to take a PSAT, SAT, or ACT. Studying for them takes time away from learning, they cost money, and a variety of other reasons mean that, if not completely removed, standardized exams should be changed. Primarily, that is, they should be ... Read More 10:20 AM - 10:40 AM |
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How the Growth Mindset Affects Students Shivan Chirumamilla '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy Our SLX project discusses the benefits of the Growth Mindset and how it affects students. The Growth Mindset is the belief that our most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work. Many students nowadays have fixed mindsets ( the idea that some people are born with natural intelligence, and others can’t learn to be as intelligent ) ... Read More 10:20 AM - 10:40 AM |
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Educational Programming on Neurodivergency Maitreyi Pandey '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy In recent years, the term neurodivergency has become more widely used. People are starting to accept that different people’s brains operate differently and this isn’t a bad thing. Schools are some of the first places students learn to socialize and are also filled with hindrances to learning for the nuerodivergent student body, such as overstimulation and a lack of patience. ... Read More 10:45 AM - 11:05 AM |
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Rohun Baksh '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy For our SLX project, we plan to create a website based on a journal or news article with general information and an explanation of the trends of the effect of geography vs. levels of education. We will focus on the impact of geography on the group of education people have [we will base it on the relationship between geography ... Read More 10:45 AM - 11:05 AM |
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Teaching LGBTQ+ History in Schools Madison Clarke '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy We found inspiration for this project through the recent anti-LGBTQ+ legislation decreed in various states. In Illinois, the current Board of Education’s mandates on LGBTQ+ educational curriculum are very limited and not enforced in public schools, which we as students have personally experienced and witnessed. This inspired us to explore a legislative activism avenue for our project where we intend ... Read More 10:45 AM - 11:05 AM |
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Miracle Clemmons '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy Our project, TIMEly, is an all-in-one service app targeted towards high school and college student populations, that can not only track one’s assignments and other work through the built-in planner, but can also schedule quick and easy study groups/sessions through our comprehensive peer network that is centralized around the campus or school you attend. Alongside such applications, students and ... Read More 10:45 AM - 11:05 AM |
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