广播电视英语短句 第 153 课：减少辍学-1

An international conference took place this week in Dakar, Senegal, to find new ways to get and keep girls in school.
为了找到让女孩上学并减少辍学的新方案,一个国际性会议这周在塞内加尔的达喀尔举行.

The United Nations Children's Fund says nearly seventy-two million children were not in school in two thousand seven. 联合国儿童基金会表示2007年有将近七千二百万的孩子辍学。

More than half are girls, and more than two-thirds are in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and West Asia. 而其中超过一半的都是女孩，并且超过三分之二的孩子都来自于撒哈拉以南的非洲，南亚及西亚.

School attendance has improved in many areas. 学校的上学人数在许多区域已经得到改善.

He says progress and economic development depend on educating girls as well as boys. 他表示社会进程和经济发展都依赖于教育，女孩的教育和男孩同等重要。