Latin America Faces Lasting Impact of Its ‘Worst Educational Crisis Ever’

Latin American nations must take immediate action to recover from the worst education crisis in the region’s history due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Bank said. About 120 million school-age children had lost or were at risk for losing, a full academic year of in-person education as of February, the development lender said in a report Wednesday. Learning poverty, or the percentage of 10-year-olds who can’t read or understand a simple text,
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