Pandemic’s Dire Global Impact on Education

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Alison Quinotoa eyes her cell phone as she receives classes via the internet, at her home in La Josefina, Ecuador, in September 2020, due to her school being closed because of the Covid-19 pandemic. © 2020 AP Photo / Dolores Ochoa Covid-related school closures affected children unequally, as not all children had the opportunities, tools, or access needed to keep on learning during the pandemic. For millions of students, school closures will not be temporary interference with their education, but the abrupt end of it. Education should be at the core of all governments’…

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