The deadline to reach the Education for All Goals and for theMillennium Development Goals is 2015. That leaves us with less than two years. Not much to reach these important goals which would ensure that each child gets a quality education. Meanwhile, 61 million primary school-aged children are still out-of-school.

The development community is wide awake advocating for action and rallying support for additional financing. We posted several blogs about it over the past month.

• Pauline Rose, Director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report In 2013 blogged "Let's Keep Our Education Promises – And Get Ready to Make Some More."
• Rebecca Winthrop, Director of the Brookings' Center for Universal Education and Allison Anderson blogged about Tracking Post-2015 Opportunities for the Global Education Sector Worldwide.
• Corinne Woods, Director of the United Nations Millennium Campaign just launched a new campaign asking people from around the world to vote for My World in 2015 and blogged about it on our Education for All Blog.
• Save the Children has proposed a bold new global education goal: "By 2030, we will ensure children everywhere receive quality education and have good learning outcomes" while articulating a strategy to achieve it. We have blogged about it.

Now, the Basic Education Coalition (BEC) released its recommendations to shape a new set of global education goals. In Each Child Learning, Every Student a Graduate, the Coalition stresses that education must remain a priority of any new global strategy. It argues that education is essential to long-term poverty reduction, and one of the most cost-effective proven solutions in global development.

Have a look at the BEC recommendations below:

By 2030, all children and youth should complete primary and lower secondary education which enables them to meet measurable learning standards and acquire relevant skills so they may become responsible, productive members of society

Progress toward this goal would be tracked by four indicators:

• Availability of and enrollment in pre-primary and other early childhood care and education programs
• Completion of primary and lower secondary education, including non-formal education, with completion based on fulfillment of measurable learning standards at each grade or level, and end of cycle, and data disaggregated by gender and other categories of marginalized and vulnerable groups
• Adult literacy rates, and rates of participation in and completion of continuing education and training
• Percentage of countries whose national education plans and policies are standards-based and effectively track and measure learning outcomes, skills acquisition, and teacher and other educational staff's certification and professional development, and which make systematic use of standards-based exams and other tools for assessing continuous learning

Recommendation for Post-EFA Goals:

1) By 2030, improve school readiness by reducing by 50% the proportion of young children, including marginalized and vulnerable groups, who are not attending early childhood care and education programs

Progress toward this goal would be tracked primarily by the availability of and enrollment in pre-primary and other early childhood care and education programs.

2) By 2030, all children and youth, including marginalized and vulnerable groups, complete primary and lower secondary education which enables them to meet measurable learning standards and acquire relevant skills so they may become responsible, productive members of society

Progress toward this goal would be tracked primarily by completion of primary and lower secondary education, including non-formal education, with completion based on fulfilment of standards for measurable learning and skills acquisition at each grade or level, and end of cycle, and data disaggregated by gender and other categories of marginalized and vulnerable groups.

3) By 2030, reduce adult illiteracy by 50% and expand lifelong learning

Progress toward this goal would be tracked primarily by adult literacy rates, and participation in and completion of continuing education and training.

4) By 2030, all countries have strong education systems in place which support learning

Progress toward this goal would be tracked primarily by the percentage of countries whose national education plans and policies are standards-based and effectively track and measure learning outcomes, skills acquisition, and teacher and other educational staff's certification and professional development, and which make systematic use of standards-based exams and other tools for assessing continuous learning.

Recommendation for Global Consultations on Effective Education Practices and Standards:

With input from all stakeholders, we recommend that an international body launch a series of global consultations on effective education practices and standards, focusing on access, equity, learning and sustainability. These consultations could occur regionally, and the findings would shape national education plans, and advance the post-MDG and EFA goals. We call on education stakeholders everywhere to support these recommendations for the post-2015 global development agenda, so that by the year 2030 we can proudly proclaim proclaim: Each Child Learning, Every Student a Graduate!