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- New data released today by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) show that 617 million children and adolescents worldwide are not reaching minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics. This signals a learning crisis that could threaten progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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May 16, 2023 · The new data are a powerful reminder that the world is learning crisis, which has been made worse by the pandemic. Around the time of the previous PIRLS wave in 2016, countries committed under SDG4 (in the Incheon Declaration) to ensuring that all children receive a quality primary education by 2030.
- Learning Data Compact
UNESCO, UNICEF, and the World Bank have joined forces to...
- Learning Data Compact
Jun 30, 2021 · UNESCO, UNICEF, and the World Bank have joined forces to close the learning data gaps that still exist and that preclude many countries to monitor of the quality of their education systems and assess if their students are learning.
Sep 21, 2017 · New data released today by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) show that 617 million children and adolescents worldwide are not reaching minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics.
New data presented in the report confirms that learning poverty was very high just before the pandemic hit. Since then, COVID-19 has sharply increased learning poverty, with COVID-driven school disruptions exacerbating the severe pre-pandemic learning crisis.
To tackle the learning crisis, countries must first address the learning data crisis, by assessing students’ learning levels. While substantial losses in reading and math have now been documented in several countries and show variations across countries, grades, subjects and students characteristics, evidence on learning loss generally
Dec 6, 2021 · Simulations estimating that school closures resulted in significant learning losses are now being corroborated by real data. For example, regional evidence from Brazil, Pakistan, rural India, South Africa, and Mexico, among others, show substantial losses in math and reading.
Jun 23, 2022 · The world is in the depths of a learning crisis, made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic. This report finds that COVID-19-related school closures and other disruptions have sharply increased learning poverty, a measure of children unable to read and understand a simple text by age 10.
