CHILDREN EDUCATION AT THE AGE OF A PANDEMIC
At this age of uncertainty, education is facing one of the greatest threats for a generation in terms of COVID 19. This pandemic led to an unprecedented disruption of learning for children around the world. Even before it, education worldwide was facing challenges in terms of disparity and distribution. World bank’s, Learning Poverty indicator rated that over 53% of children under 10 could not read and write in Low- and Middle income- countries. With this international crisis, the pandemic has caused more than 1.6 billion learners to be out of school. This could be approximated as over 50% of the world’s learners, a phenomenon never seen before in recent history.
