this is the Education Report.Recently, there have been effortsto make sure children in Africaget a good strong education.But a new report says governmentsare losing about $129 billion every yearon poor quality education.As a result, about one in four students in poor countriescannot read a complete sentence,that represents about 175 million young people.The report comes from UNESCO -the United Nations Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organization.It says poor teacher training and spending cutsare just two of the reasons for underperforming school systems.Pauline Rose, an education specialist directed the report.She says more teachers are needed across Africa,especially in countries south of the Saharan desert.She says the area would need about 225,000 additional teachersa year to guarantee a primary school educationfor all boys and girls by 2015.Miss Rose says governments like to save moneyby using contract teachers.These educators are not government employeesbut work under a special agreement.Contract teachers can be easily dismissedif found to be underperforming.They also earn far less money than teachers working for the government.Contract teachers represent more than half ofthe teaching work force in many West African countries.Pauline Rose says teachers need to have a strong desireto help children learn.She says they should want to be in the classroominstead of doing other jobs.In recent years, financial support for educationhas gone down or stayed the same in many countries.The UNESCO report says governmentswill need to increase spending on education.Miss Rose says governments can do better on collecting taxesand making sure everyone pays their fair share of taxes.She says governments could also offer good housing to make sure impoverished areas have enough teachers.The report says South Africa gives six times more moneyto students in areas with low education levels and high unemployment.Malawi is creating teacher colleges to train new candidatesfor teaching positions in skills for rural areas.And Ethiopia is urging mentors and supervisorsto help support teaching candidates.And that's the Education Report from VOA Learning English,