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According to UNICEF, Pakistan is facing a serious challenge to ensure all children, attend, stay and learn in school, particularly the most disadvantaged. While enrollment and retention rates are improving, progress has been slow to improve education indicators. Credit: UNICEF/Pakistan/ Asad Zaidi ISLAMABAD / LAGOS, Jul 7 2021 (IPS) - Never before have so many children been out of school. 1.6 billion children and young people – more than 90% of students worldwide – have been impacted by school closures during the pandemic. Hundreds of millions of those children have gone without any lear...

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Are Investments in Basic Education Geared towards Learning? How to Find Out with Under $150K Image The Global Education Policy Dashboard offers policymakers an easy-to-use, quick, and cost-effective tool for tracking key drivers of learning throughout the system in low- and middle-income countries. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the already existing global learning crisis. The latest simulations show that over 23 million children are at risk of not returning to school—bringing the number of out-of-school children close to 300 million. Combined with expected learning losses, this tra...

03/17/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 03/17/2021 11:05 COVID-19 and the Learning Crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean: How Can We Prevent a Tragedy? Losing an entire year of schooling can mean the difference between a bright future and a life derailed. That is what is happening to millions of children in Latin America. Hopes and dreams for a better life can be squashed forever - unless we act now. We face the biggest crisis ever seen for education in Latin America and the Caribbean. Most schools have been closed for almost a year because of COVID-19. We can already see th...