9 Out of 10 Children Are Out of School Worldwide. What Now?
02 April 2020
Students from 185 countries—nearly 9 out of 10 schoolchildren worldwide—are now out of school as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. While the scale of this disruption is unprecedented, there is an increasing body of knowledge and research from other education emergencies that can be used to navigate this global crisis.
“The choice to do nothing...ends up just exacerbating existing inequalities.”
In this article published by National Public Radio, REACH founder and director Sarah Dryden-Peterson shares her perspective on the school shutdowns caused by Covid-19 and offers lessons from the field known as “education in emergencies.”
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