At UN, leaders confront COVID's impact on global education

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With COVID-related school disruptions setting back children around the world, activists are imploring world leaders to prioritize school systems and restore educational budgets slashed when the pandemic hit.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai speaks during the Transforming Education Summit at United Nations headquarters, Monday, Sept. 19, 2022. The summit on transforming education, held at the U.N.

Will the world’s leaders do enough to help their youngest citizens learn to read and gain the other skills they need to thrive? It will require addressing systemic problems that existed before the pandemic, dignitaries and students say. Countries will need to increase spending, change policies to increase access for girls and disabled students, and modernize instruction to stress critical thinking rather than rote memorization.

The education minister for the Central African Republic, Aboubakar Moukadas-Noure, said his country slashed education spending to 0.25 percent of the national budget during the pandemic to shift resources to the health crisis. He said the country has since increased education spending to 17% and will invest in teacher training with assistance from the World Bank and the French government.

The amount of time school buildings were closed because of COVID-19 varied widely around the world. At the extreme, schools in parts of Latin America and South Asia were closed for 75 weeks or longer, according to UNESCO. In parts of the United States, including cities such as Chicago and Los Angeles, schools operated remotely from March 2020 through most of the 2020-2021 school year.

In many places, money is the key ingredient for stemming the crisis, if not fully reaching the leaders’ lofty goal of “transforming education.” Rich countries should also step up spending, said Guterres. In recent years, Germany, France and the United States have given the most international aid towards education in low-income countries, according to a 2021 Center for Global Development report. The United States invested more than $1.5 billion annually from 2017-2019, according to the report based on the most recent available data.

 

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Schools should offer money to these kids! I bet they excel beyond expectations! Trips to Disney world !new PlayStations,Xboxes! encouragement,goes farther than brow beating!

Covid was dispersed into the population of the world to kill at least one third of the population! The top greedy and power hungry people of the world wanted it so!

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Leftists abuse children.

The teachers unions have some responsibility in this as well. The push for lockdowns came from primarily them. The resistance to go back to in person continued on for well over a year. Someone needs to point that out.

receiptmaven School shutdowns were tremendously damaging. For disabled children in the US they have legal remedies at least. General education students are just stuck.

Pulling children out of those state propaganda and indoctrination centers was the silver lining to the lockdowns

If anything it showed the benefit of going to all online schooling. We could slash costs, give teachers raises, and lower taxes.

Its likely part of the depopulation agenda. To reduce global pop so the corrupt financial system can function.

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