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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Report
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148198
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2
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2020/06/02
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Disclosed
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Executive Summary
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out of school child
Citation
Rogers,F. Halsey; Sabarwal,Shwetlena; Avitabile,Ciro; Lee,Jessica Veronique; Miyamoto,Koji; Nellemann,Soren; Venegas Marin,Sergio; Saavedra,Jaime.
The COVID-19 Pandemic : Shocks to Education and Policy Responses (Vol. 2 of 2) : Executive Summary (English). Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/485261591112056707