As a part of the Colombia’s Millennium Development Goals, one of the nation’s challenges involves overcoming poverty. The government established the “Unidos” network strategy, which is administered by the National Agency for Overcoming Extreme Poverty (ANSPE). ANSPE evaluates these families in eight dimensions, one of which is education. Studies reveal that education plays a leading role as it is a fundamental variable when considering intervention processes for these families. In order for education to fulfill its purpose, it is necessary to identify the current state of this variable within families so as to establish a series of shock strategies that are both efficient and effective, and which allow to identify opportunities and challenges of education as a decisive factor for growth and development in this century