Education is a human right

EDITOR’S PICK

Transforming education across Eastern and Southern Africa. In Eastern and Southern Africa, about 89% of ten-year-old children are unable to read and understand a short text, reflecting a high percentage of learning poverty that was exacerbated during the pandemic. What will it take to transform their education systems? Learn more in our newest immersive story.

IN FOCUS

The World Bank Group and Education. Education is a human right, a powerful driver of development, and one of the strongest instruments for reducing poverty and improving health, gender equality, peace, and stability. The World Bank Group is the largest financier of education in the developing world, working in 90 countries and committed to helping them reach SDG4: access to inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning opportunities for all by 2030.

David Malpass: Reversing the global learning crisis before it derails a generation of children. As many as 70% of 10 year-olds in low- and middle-income economies can’t read and understand a basic text—what we call “learning poverty.”?In his op-ed, originally?published in USA Today, World Bank Group President David Malpass?shares the four steps that are needed to recover learning losses and transform education.?

IMMERSIVE STORY

Learning in Crisis: Prioritizing education & effective policies to recover lost learning. Children around the world have lost an enormous amount of classroom time.?At the peak in April 2020, it is estimated that pandemic-related school closures disrupted education for over 1.6 billion children in 188 countries. Globally, from February 2020 until February 2022, education systems were on average fully closed for in-person schooling about 141 instructional days, with the world’s poorest children disproportionately affected.

REPORTS AND PUBLICATIONS

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·??????Ending Learning Poverty and Building Skills

·??????Ending Learning Poverty: What Will It Take?

·??????Quality Early Learning: Nurturing Children's

BLOGS

Education must remain a political priority in all countries. Developing countries have made tremendous progress in getting children into the classroom, with the majority of children worldwide are now in primary school. Nevertheless, some 260 million children are still out of primary and secondary school. In his newest blog, World Bank Global Director for Education?Jaime Saavedra?marks International Day of Education as a day to mobilize political ambition, actions, and solutions to?recover learning losses due to the pandemic, while recognizing that even before the pandemic, we lived in a learning crisis.?

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Countries with higher government expenditure on education also have higher student test scores

Money matters, and it’s impossible to imagine increasing the primary school completion rate in low-income countries from its current 67 percent to every child finishing elementary school without increasing spending, just in terms of construction and teachers for all these additional students. But how we spend the money also matters - so?increase school spending, track its use, measure its impact, and adjust.?More data.