Opinion: COVID-19: How To Press the Brakes on the Escalating Global Learning Crisis, By Edwin Ikhuoria
, although children are in school for an average of 8.2 years, they are only receiving learning equivalent to that of a Primary 4 level.
Schools will have to be prepared to make up for the learning loss, which includes the time students have been out of school, and factoring in the impact several years down the line. Gaps in knowledge today accumulate over time; a recent study found that just three months of lost learning can add up to over one-and-a-half years of schooling loss six years later.
The children that do re-enter will find their schools underprepared to safeguard them from the pandemic, particularly in the poorest communities. Classroom sizes in low-income countries arethat of the number in high-income countries, so social distancing will be exceedingly difficult. And basic sanitation facilities are woefully inadequate.
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