
6 in 10 children can’t read or do basic math: Why they’re attending school but not learning
Foundational learning is in freefall across the globe. From Sub-Saharan Africa to Southeast Asia, millions of children are leaving classrooms without the ability to read a simple sentence or solve a basic math problem. The pandemic exacerbated a pre-existing crisis, but the learning poverty has become a grave educational failure of our time. The crisis…