Pandemic shakes up world’s education systems

Expand An empty classroom in Senegal. © 2017 Elin Martinez/Human Rights Watch UNESCO reports that 119 countries have closed schools nationwide since the COVID-19 outbreak, disrupting the learning and education of an estimated 897 million students. Millions more could be affected as more countries order school closures. Every year, education systems in many countries are disrupted because of climate-change-related natural hazards and armed conflicts. But the world has not seen this level of disruption of education spread so uniformly since the Second World War.  Most governments have opted…

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