Education for All > Background Documents > Mid-Decade Meeting 1996 > Press Kit Achieving the Goal World conferences come and go, but what effect do they really have? This press kit provides a preliminary balance sheet of how thinking and action in basic education have profoundly changed since the World Conference on Education for All in Jomtien, Thailand in 1990. In the past five years, the number of children attending primary school in developing countries jumped by some 50 million, from 496 million in 1990 to 545 million in 1995. Today, four out of five children aged 6-11 go to school. For the past year, a worldwide review of progress towards Education for All has been carried out at country, regional and global levels under the guidance of the International Consultative Forum on Education for All, the focal point for promoting and monitoring follow-up to the Jomtien Conference. The results of this worldwide review will be examined at the Mid-Decade meeting of the Forum which will take place in Amman, Jordan from 16 to 19 June 1996. Contents: Joint statement: Education for All: A Goal within Reach Backgrounder: Achieving Education for All World conferences 1992-1995: Statements on Education for All   Thematic features: Education for All: Are countries on the right track? Education for women and girls: An on-going struggle for equality High population countries: Nine giants: One goal Funding: Counting the cost of Education for All The situation of teachers: A silent emergency The least developed countries: Giving the poor a chance Illiteracy in industrialized countries: One out of five adults Emergencies: Helping communities cope All articles are free of copyright restrictions and can be reproduced provided that the Secretariat of the EFA Forum is credited. The presskit is also available in French, Spanish and Arabic