Losing children from education has high costs—we must keep them learning when schools close
At the height of school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 1.6 billion children around the world were out of school, some 120 million in central and west Africa. The repercussions of children missing school are more wide-ranging than a few months of lost learning: the Ebola outbreaks from 2014 to 2016 saw numerous children […]