Remarkable increases in primary schooling over the past decade have brought gender equity to the education systems of many poor countries. But still nearly three-quarters of the 60 million girls still not in school belong to ethnic, religious, linguistic, racial or other minorities. Based this book the writers suggest practical policy solutions to achieve universal primary education for girls and boys. Specifically, strategies to make education more responsive to the needs of marginalized populations must be developed and carefully tested and the UNESCO Institute for Statistics should report school participation and achievement data disaggregated by gender and by ethnic/linguistic group, to make it possible to identify the role of social exclusion.