Now that we are going back to face-to-face classes after two long years of online struggles for both learners and teachers, attention is once again focused on the state of our educational system, particularly the quality of Philippine education. There are proposals here and there on how to make education…
Children suffered the worst long-term consequences of the lockdowns. “The State of Global Learning Poverty: 2022 Update,” found that an alarming 70% of middle and lower-class 10-year-olds across the globe cannot read. There is no greater freedom than knowledge, and reading comprehension is essential to our modern-day existence. “Only the richer segments of the population those
New research by the World Bank has painted a stark and worrying picture about children's learning outcomes, as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, across the world.
The report, titled The State of Global Learning Poverty: 2022, shows that prolonged school closures, poor mitigation effectiveness, and household-income shocks had the biggest impact on learning poverty in the global south.