The speed with which the spread of COVID-19 pandemic has overwhelmed the health and education systems around the world forced countries to rethink and rapidly re-adjust the modes of delivery of these critical services.
Are Investments in Basic Education Geared towards Learning? How to Find Out with Under $150K
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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 translates into a likely rise in the global Learning Poverty rate to 63% (from 53% before COVID-19). Confronted with deep recessions, two-thirds of low- and lower-middle-income countries have cut their public education budgets since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.