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This report presents a cross-national snapshot of school education one year into the COVID-19 pandemic, drawing on a survey coordinated by the OECD, UNESCO, UNICEF, and the World Bank. It documents closures, remote-learning arrangements, curriculum adaptations, assessment changes, teacher support, reopening strategies, health measures, and vaccination priorities.
Although 1.5 billion learners experienced disruption, access to devices, connectivity, instructional contact, and family support varied widely. Systems used digital platforms, television, radio, printed materials, and combinations of these, but participation and learning opportunities were especially fragile for marginalised students. The report is descriptive and reflects government-reported conditions at a rapidly changing point in time; it does not isolate causal effects of particular responses. Its policy message is that continuity requires more than an online platform.
Education systems need resilient infrastructure, accessible alternatives, teacher capacity, monitoring of engagement and learning, targeted support, safe reopening plans, and mechanisms to reach students who disappear from ordinary administrative view during a crisis.
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