Publication: The State of the Global Education Crisis: A Path to Recovery
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Date
2021-12-10
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2021-12-10
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UNESCO
UNICEF
World Bank
Abstract
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.
Citation
“UNESCO; UNICEF; World Bank. 2021. The State of the Global Education Crisis; El Estado de la Crisis Educativa Mundial; Etat de la Crise Mondiale de l’Education : A Path to Recovery; Un Camino Hacia la Recuperacion; Un Chemin pour le Redressement. © UNESCO, Paris, UNICEF, New York, and World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/36744 License: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.”