{"id":7428,"date":"2020-04-01T00:10:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T07:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/?p=7428"},"modified":"2022-07-22T16:48:59","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T23:48:59","slug":"1-5-billion-learners-out-of-school-a-global-educational-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/2020\/04\/01\/1-5-billion-learners-out-of-school-a-global-educational-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"1.5 billion learners out of school: A global educational crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The scale of the COVID19 crisis and its impact on global education is hard to comprehend. UNESCO has a website (COVID-19 Educational Disruption and Response<\/a>)\n providing almost real-time data on school closures. It is shocking to \nimagine that in a mere 45 days we have had schools close in over 180 \ncountries, affecting 1.5 billion learners! As Yuval Harari wrote in The world after coronavirus<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In normal times, governments, businesses and educational \nboards would never agree to conduct such experiments. But these aren\u2019t \nnormal times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

We are living through the largest educational social experiment in history! I am part of an ongoing conversation on the silverliningforlearning<\/a> website devoted to better understanding the present we are living in and the future that we will be emerging into.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below is a short promotional video for this project with data and \nanimation showing school closures across the world from the UNESCO site \nabove.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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