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Covid-19 creates a window for school reform in Africa


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VEN BEFORE covid-19 forced its classrooms to close for three months last year, Mavis Maphoto’s school in Botswana had decided that its pupils needed to catch up. At the start of 2020 it began setting aside an hour each day in which to shuffle some of its children out of their usual classes and into groups decided by how well they could do maths. For 60 minutes chairs and tables are swept aside; pupils play learning games on the floor. Ms Maphoto, a teacher, says her school has expanded its catch-up programme since its doors reopened in July though she fears the classes are not quite as fun, now that the children must keep one metre apart. ....

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Stemming Learning Loss During the Pandemic: A Rapid Randomized Trial of a Low-Tech Intervention in Botswana


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To address the learning crisis, which has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, approaches that can cost-effectively improve learning on a global scale are needed.
The COVID-19 outbreak caused education systems around the world to halt in-person learning. In Botswana, schools across the country were closed from March to June 2020; shortly after reopening, a new wave of COVID-19 cases prompted a subsequent school closure, with similar waves of reopening and closing expected, and a double-shift system in place as of July 2020. Despite the government s efforts to keep students engaged through learning programmes on national television and radio stations, families have expressed demands for additional remote educational activities for their children. However, in Botswana as elsewhere, the pandemic has laid bare existing educational inequalities, with high-income families having access to alternative sources of instruction (e.g., computers and smartphones) that ....

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