Even before Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) hit, the world was already experiencing a learning crisis. 258 million primary- and secondary-school age children and youth were out of school. Many children who were in school were learning very little: 53 percent of all ten-year-old children in low- and middle-income countries were experiencing learning poverty, meaning that they were unable to read and understand a simple age-appropriate text at age 10. This report spotlights how COVID-19 has deepened the education crisis and charts a course for creating more resilient education systems for the future. Section one gives introduction. Section two documents COVID-19’s impacts on learning levels by presenting updated simulations and bringing together the latest documented evidence on learning loss from over 28 countries. Section three explores how the crisis has widened inequality and had greater impacts on already disadvantaged children and youth. Section four reviews evidence on learning recovery from past crises and highlights current policy responses that appear most likely to have succeeded in stemming learning losses, while recognizing that the evidence is still in a nascent stage. The final section discusses how to build on the investments made and the lessons learned during the pandemic to accelerate learning recovery and emerge from the crisis with increased education quality, resilience, and equity in the longer term.
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Azevedo,Joao Pedro Wagner De, Rogers,F. Halsey, Ahlgren,Sanna Ellinore, Cloutier,Marie-Helene, Chakroun,Borhene, Chang,Gwang-Chol, Mizunoya,Suguru, Reuge,Nicolas Jean, Brossard,Matt, Bergmann,Jessica Lynn
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2021/12/10
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Report
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166631
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2
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2
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2021/12/10
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Disclosed
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Doc Name
Executive Summary
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Keywords
school closure; global education crises; dropping out of school; children and youth; generation of children; privileges and immunity; girls at risk; access to learning; prior written permission; source of food; need of child; return to education; students with disability; inequality in education; education systems; Mental health; psychosocial support; recovery program; children's health; young people; lifetime earnings; present value; risk result; learning program; assessing student; remedial education; learning assessment; academic learning; digital skills; developmental needs; learning need; student learning; young students; subsidiary right; school feeding; early marriage; essential services; in school; learning initiative; remedial measure; school meal; several countries; learning opportunity; global learning
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Azevedo,Joao Pedro Wagner De Rogers,F. Halsey Ahlgren,Sanna Ellinore Cloutier,Marie-Helene Chakroun,Borhene Chang,Gwang-Chol Mizunoya,Suguru Reuge,Nicolas Jean Brossard,Matt Bergmann,Jessica Lynn
The State of the Global Education Crisis : A Path to Recovery (Vol. 2) : Executive Summary (Spanish). Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/402111638769366449/Executive-Summary