In the lead up to International Women’s Day 2021 on 8 March 2021 - ECW, INEE and UNGEI - three partners working together for gender equality in education in emergencies (EiE), have joined forces to launch a toolkit promoting gender-responsive and inclusive education interventions in emergency & protracted crises settings.
NEW YORK, Mar 3 2021 - Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) and the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI), today launched a new toolkit to support stronger integration of gender equality in education responses for children and youth in countries affected by emergencies and protracted crises.
Armed conflicts, forced displacement, climate-induced disasters, health emergencies and other crises increase barriers to safe, quality education, especially for vulnerable children and youth. Girls, boys, women and men experience these barriers to education in different ways, resulting in an exacerbation of
Pandemic learning takes another turn: Will teachers be in person in classrooms?
Donna St. George, Hannah Natanson and Perry Stein, The Washington Post
Feb. 6, 2021
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A third-grade class learns at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School in Southeast Washington on Friday.photo for The Washington Post by Evelyn Hockstein.
After nearly a year of online learning, parents in the Washington region were thrilled to hear announcements from public schools, some of them tumbling out rapid-fire last week, that in-person learning will resume next month for students who choose it.
But families quickly discovered that in-person learning will not necessarily mean sitting in a classroom, being taught by a teacher. Instead, school officials in Maryland and Virginia have been hiring classroom monitors who will fill out school staffing - in some cases supervising classrooms as students continue to do online lessons.