A report from One Campaign found that COVID-19 has hindered literacy efforts globally. The report reveals that 70 million 10-year-olds in 2021 will lack the basic literacy skills common to children of that age. Of these, 12 million will be unable to read altogether.
According to The Hill, the new analysis found that more than half the world’s 10-year-olds could be incapable of reading or understanding a sentence in 2021 due to school closures, one of the unfortunate side effects of the pandemic. One Campaign, a non-profit, anti-poverty organization, said that the learning crisis is particularly dire in Africa and Asia.
While wealthier nations were able to resort to virtual learning when schools closed because of COVID-19, the poorest countries were unable to provide hybrid or online learning due to a lack of technology and the infrastructure required for remote education, says The Hill.
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besides reading, writing, and arithmetic, schools teach children how to compete, how to compromise, how to share, how to win and how to lose, how to disagree politely, among so many non-academic skills. what is this generation of kids going to be like ten years from now?
Lockdowns have nothing to do with Covid-19 political nonsense. Lockdowns were/are necessary to keep elite criminals who are currently being pursued by the military from fleeing.