Even before the emergence of COVID-19 and the mass school closures that followed, a staggering 90% of children in low-income countries could not read and understand a simple text when they reached their 10th birthday, a benchmark which the World Bank uses to define “learning poverty”. Illustrating the scale of global inequality on literacy, the exact inverse of this statistic is true in high-income countries where 9 in 10 children can read with comprehension at the age of 10....
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