dc.contributor.author	World Bank
dc.date.accessioned	2020-05-05T13:40:09Z
dc.date.available	2020-05-05T13:40:09Z
dc.date.issued	2020-05-07
dc.description.abstract	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 worse, the crisis was not equally distributed: the most disadvantaged children and youth had the worst access to schooling, highest dropout rates, and the largest learning deficits. All this means that the world was already far off track for meeting Sustainable Development Goal 4, which commits all nations to ensure that, among other ambitious targets, “all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education.” The COVID-19 pandemic now threatens to make education outcomes even worse. The pandemic has already had profound impacts on education by closing schools almost everywhere in the planet, in the largest simultaneous shock to all education systems in our lifetimes. The damage will become even more severe as the health emergency translates into a deep global recession. These costs of crisis are described below. But it is possible to counter those shocks, and to turn crisis into opportunity. The first step is to cope successfully with the school closures, by protecting health and safety and doing what they can to prevent students' learning loss using remote learning. At the same time, countries need to start planning for school reopening. That means preventing dropout, ensuring healthy school conditions, and using new techniques to promote rapid learning recovery in key areas once students are back in school. As the school system stabilizes, countries can use the focus and innovativeness of the recovery period to “build back better.” The key: don't replicate the failures of the pre-COVID systems, but instead build toward improved systems and accelerated learning for all students.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/365801588601466966/The-COVID-19-Pandemic-Shocks-to-Education-and-Policy-Responses
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/33696
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/33696
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	COVID-19
dc.subject	CORONAVIRUS
dc.subject	PANDEMIC RESPONSE
dc.subject	EDUCATION
dc.subject	LEARNING POVERTY
dc.subject	DROPOUT RATE
dc.subject	EDUCATION QUALITY
dc.subject	SCHOOL CLOSURE
dc.subject	LEARNING LOSS
dc.subject	EDUCATION SYSTEM
dc.subject	DISTANCE EDUCATION
dc.subject	INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
dc.title	The COVID-19 Pandemic	en
dc.title	PANDÉMIE DE COVID-19	fr
dc.title	COVID-19	es
dc.title.subtitle	Shocks to Education and Policy Responses	en
dc.title.subtitle	CHOCS POUR L’ÉDUCATION ET RÉPONSES STRATÉGIQUES	fr
dc.title.subtitle	IMPACTO EN LA EDUCACIÓN Y RESPUESTA DE POLÍTICA PÚBLICA	es
dc.type	Policy Note	en
dc.type	Document de politique générale	fr
dc.type	Documento de políticas	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crossref.title	The COVID-19 Pandemic
okr.date.disclosure	2020-05-07
okr.doctype	Economic & Sector Work
okr.doctype	Economic & Sector Work::Policy Note
okr.guid	804001590734163932
okr.guid	195661590734507161
okr.guid	365801588601466966
okr.guid	485261591112056707
okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/33696
okr.identifier.report	148198
okr.language.supported	en
okr.language.supported	fr
okr.language.supported	es
okr.topic	Education::Access & Equity in Basic Education
okr.topic	Education::Education For All
okr.topic	Education::Educational Institutions & Facilities
okr.topic	Education::Educational Technology and Distance Education
okr.topic	Education::Effective Schools and Teachers
okr.unit	Education Global Practice

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