this is the Education Report.A United Nations representative wants international supportfor programs aimed at helping 28 million boys and girls return to school.The children are unable to continue their educationbecause of wars and crises around the world.Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brownis the UN's Special Envoy for Global Education.Mr. Brown says schools were once safe places for children.Now, he says, they are increasingly becoming instruments of war.In the past five years, there were more than 10,000 attacks on schools.Mr. Brown told the United Nations recentlythat the international community should spend money to make schools safer.He proposed creation of an international humanitarian fundfor education in emergencies."It is our moral duty to make sure that every single child in the worldcan enjoy the basic right to education - free of terror, free of fear,and with the support of the international community."Mr. Brown is thinking about new uses of technology to improve school safety.A pilot program has been launched in Pakistan.Three months ago, the Pakistani Taliban killed 140 childrenat a school in the city of Peshawar.Pakistani officials are now working with Predictify.Me,a technology company based in the United States.Under the "Pakistan Safe Schools" program,schools will use new computer software to test their safety plans.The results of the testing will help school officialsprepare better for emergencies.Mr. Brown said it is a major step forward in a countrywhere more than five million children do not go to school.More than 1,000 schools have been destroyed in the past five yearsin Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, which includes Peshawar.The technology will make it possible to learn what schoolsand governments are doing to prevent attacks on schools.The UN representative also called for the release ofthe more than 200 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants.The girls were taken one year ago from a schoolin the northern Nigerian town of Chibok.He said more than 10 million children are out of school in Nigeria.Nigeria has the highest number of childrenwho cannot attend school of any country.The UN's Safe Schools initiative has collected $30 millionfor protecting Nigerian schools.One way it helps young people get back to learningis by sending students to different schools.Students who attend schools in the areas where Boko Haram is activeare moved to schools in safer areas.The Syrian conflict has kept three million children out of school,many for several years.Five hundred thousand of them are refugees in Lebanon.Gordon Brown is working with the Lebanese governmenton what has been called a "double shift" plan.Under the plan, Lebanese children would attend public schools in the morningand Syrian children would attend the same schools in the afternoon.Mr. Brown said it is time for the international communityto wake up and deal with the problems facing children.He said the world should protect their rightsand stop turning its back on these young victims of war.And that's Education Report.Words in This Storypilot - adj. done as a test to see if a larger program, study, etc., should be doneinitiative - n. a plan or program that is intended to solve a problemshift - n. a group of people who work together during a scheduled period of time.