Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the world was living a learning crisis. Before the pandemic, 258 million children and youth of primary- and secondary-school age were out of school. And low schooling quality meant many who were in school learned too little. The Learning Poverty rate in low-and middle-income countries was 53 percent—meaning that over half of all 10-year-old children couldn’t read and understand a simple age appropriate story. Even...
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2020/05/01
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2020/05/29
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The COVID-19 Pandemic : Shocks to Education and Policy Responses
Citation
Rogers,F. Halsey; Sabarwal,Shwetlena.
The COVID-19 Pandemic : Shocks to Education and Policy Responses (Vol. 1 of 2) (French). Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/195661590734507161