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Children, youth and education

  • COVID-19 and inequality in Children’s Education by Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti 
  • Why Lockdown and Distance Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic are Likely to Increase the Social Class Achievement Gap by Sébastien Goudeau, Camille Sanrey, Arnaud Stanczak, Antony Manstead and Céline Darnon 
  • Teachers and School Staff Play a Central Role in COVID-19 Outbreaks on Campus, Research Suggests by Denise-Marie Ordway
  • Covid-19: The Indian Children Who Have Forgotten How to Read and Write by Divya Arya
  • The Appalling Increase in Child Labor by Kailash Satyarthi
  • Economist article on how Closing schools for does lifelong harm and widens inequality  
  • A special section with an interactive map for Education and COVID-19 from World Bank
  • COVID-19: Exacerbating Educational Inequalities? By Orla Doyle 
  • COVID-19 Educational Disruption and Response, data and updates from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
  • Coronavirus school closures impact 1.3 billion children – and remote learning is increasing inequality by Victoria Nash and Rebecca Eynon
  • Children in monetary poor households and COVID-19: Technical note by Save the Children and UNICEF
  • Child marriage worries rise amid coronavirus lockdown in Cameroon by Emeline Fonyu
  • Education is crucial to Africa’s COVID-19 response by Jean-Marc Bernard, Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly, and Rebecca Winthro
  • COVID-19 risks driving more children into child labour by Fairtrade International
  • Violence Against Children Exacerbated By COVID-19 Lockdowns by Grace Ren, Health Policy Watc
  • Policy Brief – COVID-19 & Urgent Need for Child-Sensitive Social Protection from World Vision Internationa
  • A rapid review of economic policy and social protection responses to health and economic crises and their effects on children: Lessons for the COVID-19 pandemic response from United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF
  • Life in Lockdown: A survey of India’s Urban youth by Aastha Kaul and Terri Chapman from Observer Research Foundation, July 2020
  • School openings across the globe suggest ways to keep coronavirus at bay, despite outbreaks by Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Gretchen Vogel, Meagan Weiland
  • A report on Save Our Education by Save the Children
  • Lockdowns could have long-term effects on children’s health from the Economist
  • Resilience against the Odds: Lessons from Young People in the COVID-19 Environment by Jack Dalrymple
  • Childcare in a global crisis: the impact of COVID-19 on work and family life by Anna Gromada, Dominic Richardson and Gwyther Rees
  • The Philippine Pandemic and the Plague on Pedagogy by Malcolm Cook
  • COVID-19: Provinces must respect children’s rights to education whether or not schools reopen in September by Anne Levesque
  • Data watch: COVID-19 worsens education inequality between rich and poor by HISAO KODACHI
  • Covid-19 and unemployment: Implications for child labour by DHARIKA ATHRAY
  • The coronavirus has shrunk LGBTQ youth’s safe spaces by Amit Paley
  • Hunger, lost income and increased anxiety: how coronavirus lockdowns put huge pressure on young people around the world by Marta Favara, Alan Sánchez, and Douglas Scott
  • Innocenti Research Briefs: COVID-19: How prepared are global education systems for future crises? By Asif Saeed Memon; Annika Rigole; Taleen Vartan Nakashian; Wongani Grace Taulo; Cirenia Chávez; Suguru Mizunoya
  • Covid-19 and the Cotton Sector: Covid-19 Through a Gender Lens by By Alan McClay, BCI CEO
  • Innocenti Research Briefs: COVID-19: How prepared are global education systems for future crises? By Asif Saeed Memon; Annika Rigole; Taleen Vartan Nakashian; Wongani Grace Taulo; Cirenia Chávez; Suguru Mizunoya
  • Covid-19 and the Cotton Sector: Covid-19 Through a Gender Lens by By Alan McClay, BCI CEO
  • How Colombia’s armed groups are exploiting COVID-19 to recruit children by Luck Taylor
  • Corruption hampers the development of South Africa’s youth by Naledi Ngqambela
  • Impact of COVID-19 to Children and Their Families: An Early Recovery Rapid Assessment in the Lao PDR by World Vision
  • As Covid-19 Closes Schools, the World’s Children Go to Work by Jeffrey Gettleman and Suhasini Raj
  • Futures in Peril: The Rise of Child Labor in the Pandemic by Richard Pérez-Peña
  • The Network Effect: How Enterprise Support Organizations are Coming Together to Help Youth-Led Businesses Survive COVID-19 by Anita Tiessen, CEO of Youth Business International
  • Covid-19 and child marriage in West and Central Africa by Plan International
  • Lives vs. Livelihoods Revisited: Should Poorer Countries with Younger Populations Have Equally Strict Lockdowns? By Tillmann von Carnap, Ingvild Almås, Tessa Bold, Selene Ghisolfi and Justin Sandefur
  • Almost 600 million children completely missed out on financial support during COVID-19 by Save the Children
  • Covid-19 and conflict forced over 12 million children from school across Africa’s Central Sahel region by the Norwegian Refugee Council
  • The costs of COVID-19 in education in Latin America. Acting now to protect the future of our children by Emanuela Di Gropello
  • A report on What Have We Learnt? Findings from a survey of ministries of education on national responses to COVID-19 by UNICEF
  • Gaza children struggle with studies during COVID-19 lockdown by Hana Adli
  • 12 million children missed up to 4 months of school due to COVID-19, insecurity in Africa by Wire Services
  • Beyond Masks: Societal impacts of COVID-19 and accelerated solutions for children and adolescents by UNICEF
  • Coronavirus: UNICEF warns of ‘lost generation’ as virus hits children’s services by DW
  • World Children’s Day: Young people deserve to be heard during COVID-19 by Stephen Harris
  • COVID-19, higher education and the impact on society: what we know so far and what could happen by Conrad Hughes
  • From COVID-19 learning disruption to recovery: A snapshot of UNESCO’s work in education in 2020 by UNICEF
  • Press release: Child poverty will remain above pre-COVID levels for at least five years in high-income countries  by UNICEF
  • How could COVID-19 hinder progress with Learning Poverty? Some initial simulations by JOAO PEDRO AZEVEDO
  • Lessons for education from PISA for Development during the coronavirus crisis by Andreas Schleicher, OECD
  • Press release: Child poverty will remain above pre-COVID levels for at least five years in high-income countries  by UNICEF
  • Children in monetary poor households and COVID-19 by UNICEF
  • How could COVID-19 hinder progress with Learning Poverty? Some initial simulations by JOAO PEDRO AZEVEDO
  • The costs of COVID-19 in education in Latin America. Acting now to protect the future of our children by Emanuela Di Gropello
  • A report on What Have We Learnt? Findings from a survey of ministries of education on national responses to COVID-19 by UNICEF
  •  Covid’s Impact on Global Education Inequality Revealed – In 8 Charts : Compiled from various sources by The National News
  • Save Our Education Now: An Emergency COVID-19 Education Plan to Get the Poorest and Most Marginalised Children Safely Back to School and Learning by Hollie Warren; Oliver Fiala; Richard Watts
  • The Virus that Shut Down the World: Education in Crisis by UN News
  • Children Cannot Afford Another Year of School Disruption by UNICEF
  • When the Great Equalizer Shuts Down: Schools, Peers, and Parents in Pandemic Times by Francesco Agostinelli, Matthias Doepke, Giuseppe Sorrenti & Fabrizio Zilibotti
  • Averting a Lost COVID Generation by UNICEF
  • Lessons for Education from PISA for Development During the Coronavirus Crisis by Andreas Schleicher, OECD
  • It Is Time to Return to Learning by Rafael de Hoyos and Jaime Saavedra
  • Two-Thirds of Poorer Countries Are Cutting Education Budgets Due to COVID-19 by the World Bank 
  •  Six Million Children out of School in India Due to the Impact of COVID-19; Girls Most Affected by B K Chaturvedi 
  • COVID’s Lost Learning: 70 Million Children Face Reading Crisis by Al Jazeera
  • Over 168 Million Children Miss Nearly a Year of Schooling, UNICEF Says by the UN News
  • Covid ‘May Leave 12 Million Children Unable to Read’ by The Guardian
  • Africa’s Children Need to Get Back to School to Avoid ‘Lost Generation’ by By Emeline Wuilbercq
  • How COVID-19 has left India’s Education Sector in Tatters by Akhel Mathew
  • How the COVID-19 Pandemic has Scarred the World’s Children by the UNICEF
  • COVID-19 Increases Vulnerabilities Among Children, says Nobel laureate by Ahmad Adil
  • Reimagining Girls’ Education by the World Bank
  • Sub-Saharan Africa: Growing up in Crisis in a World of Opportunities: The lasting Impact of Covid-19 on Children by UNICEF
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Fueling Child Labor by Human Rights Watch
  • The Impact of COVID-19 on Girls’ Education in Low-Income Countries by Veda Jain-Allington
  • The Pandemic is Making a Vicious Cycle Even Worse for Low-Income Students by Anneken Tappe
  • Mission: Recovering Education in 2021 by the UNICEF
  • COVID-19 Lockdowns Reduce Children’s Probability to Return to School: Evidence from Nigeria by Sylvain Dessy, Horace Gninafon, Luca Tiberti and Marco Tiberti
  • Humanitarian Action for Children 2021 – Madagascar by UNICEF
  • Why We Must Tackle the Scourge of Child Labour by Bob Casey

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