According to the World Bank, 70% of 10-year-olds living in low or middle-income countries cannot read since the global lockdowns. Sadly, American children in this age group are experiencing similar issues.
The released report showed, “Most 10-year-olds in those nations are “unable to understand a simple written text” — a sharp increase from 57% before COVID led governments around the world to shutter schools.”
The World Bank Director stated, “Political leaders and society must swiftly move to recover this generation’s future by ensuring learning recovery strategies and investments. We owe it not only to the children and youth of this generation but to ourselves — in their minds rests our future.”
The lockdown measures and literacy poverty disproportionately affects low-income students and other disadvantaged groups. The uptick in learning poverty is most severe in Latin American countries. The highest amount of total learning poverty is among African children.
According to a University of Virginia study, the Covid lockdown measures had a significant impact on students’ rising illiteracy. The study showed, “Children between kindergarten and second-grade scoring below the benchmark for literacy surged from 21% in 2019 to nearly 35% in 2021.”
The US schools that were most strict on virtual learning and mask-wearing had the largest drops in enrollment over the past two years.
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