According to UNICEF, school attendance in Iraq is dropping:

Many schools in Iraqi cities and towns, which have been plagued by fighting and bomb attacks, have been closed, preventing hundreds of children from receiving basic education.

This supposed achievement of the invasion and occupation is a red herring. Opening of schools is not leading to the spread of education, certainly not in the sense that it is reaching new children. Part of the problem is that schools are closing because of the violence. However, the security of Iraq and the success of education are linked. It is not enough that the US puts money into schools; it must also provide a safe environment for learning, both inside and outside the school.

Even without the violence, education in Iraq has not recovered to levels pre-2003: the number of children who went to school was already high. Revision of the ideological content of the curriculum have no doubt improved. However, success in education is better served by giving necessary skills to students than educating a few in "right thinking."

[Edited for geography 4/26]