government, USAID, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) ( Joint report by the World Bank, UNESCO, UNICEF, U.K.
The current generation of students could lose $21 trillion in lifetime earnings, as a result of closures.What follows is a mere snapshot of those organizations’ findings: With the pandemic nominally back in the news ( “Hey, Remember Covid-19?” Jim Geraghty asks), it is a fitting time to revisit the policy disaster it spawned in the world of education. But if a sponge sits in a tray, it doesn’t absorb much: We are only now, owing to the work of various organizations that sought to quantify the true devastation from those Covid-19 closures, beginning to see how desperately parched the minds of the world’s children became over the last two years. They take it all in, they retain information and memories we adults discard almost immediately, they pick up new skills and lessons every day. (My preschooler’s despondent reaction when I end bath time before he prefers is not what I’d call rolling with the punches.)
Those of us who have met children were dubious anyway of the claim. “Children are resilient.” The line, used to excuse pandemic school closures that lasted far longer than they should have, has become something of an ironic creed memorializing the folly of lockdown extremism. An employee cleans tables in an empty classroom in a closed primary school in Nice, France, April 22, 2020.
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