Back to the 1960s? Education May Be Latin America’s Most Lasting Scar from COVID-19
The growing educational gap will cause devastating damage to inequality – and economic growth – for years to come unless we take the warning signs seriously.
The COVID-19 pandemic is placing Latin America at serious risk of unraveling the progress the region has made in the last decades when it comes to education According to UNICEF, 95% of children are out of school in a region where social mobility coming from education is already low, and where equality of opportunity is rare But the current generation of school children may – especially in low income, less educated households – be facing a future with the meager levels of education achievement last seen in the 1960s Going backwards in education is not just bad for the children directly...
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