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Provided by: The Global Goals |Published on: December 12, 2025
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This resource from The Global Goals introduces students to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 by explaining what quality education means, why equitable access to education is essential worldwide, and how barriers to education affect individuals and societies.
The resource provides an overview of the ten targets for this goal and global education challenges and disparities to support student understanding of equity, opportunity, and the role of education in social and economic development.
Students can draw from their background knowledge of their own educational experience to connect to this resource.
The Things To Do section does a great job of giving readers actionable steps to implement after reading.
Prerequisites
It may benefit students to have an understanding of the Sustainable Development Goals as a whole.
Students may need background information on how some children do not receive a quality education.
Differentiation & Implementation
Teachers can use this resource to to help make connections between quality education and other goals, such as gender equality and reduced inequalities.
To help students understand how quality education can help contribute to climate solutions, teachers can highlight Target 4.7 and explain how people may become informed about climate change through schooling and be equipped to make decisions to benefit the climate.
After reading, students can make an action plan to teach younger students about the Global Goals, students can complete online research and may even use resources from this curriculum guide to introduce younger students to all of the SDGs or focus on one that resonates with them.
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