School closures during the COVID-19 pandemic have impacted poorer children disproportionately across the world, finds a new study released on Thursday by researchers at the Center for Global Development. The analysis shows that poor children lost out on up to twice as much learning as richer classmates, and that teenagers were the most likely to drop out of school all together.
The Center for Global Development researchers brought together data from studies carried out all over the world and found that students today know less than students in the same grade or year group did before the pandemic and that poor children fell far behind their peers.
