Sub-regional Disparities. Journal of Education for International Development 2:2.

on [insert month] [insert day], [insert year]. The international discussion about EFA focuses largely on national policies to get children into school. Many studies have shown that out-of-school children are disproportionately girls from poor rural areas and households.2 The regional disparities in education equality have been largely overlooked, however. This study examines the data from 30 countries and suggests the importance of the sub-national inequalities in education distribution, particularly for designing education policies. Its results indicate that countries with low national attendance rates show great regional disparity and that low attendance rates within sub-national regions usually correlate with low overall development. The most notable exception to this is Bangladesh, where most children are in school, even in the least developed regions. Bangladesh should therefore be studied as a model for good practice for bringing all children into school By 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling. MDG Development Goal #