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<p><font color="#8f1919"><font color="#000000">Dear All,</font></font></p>
<p><font color="#8f1919"><font color="#000000">We have just
released <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://educationemergency.net/2022/03/cries-of-anguish/">this
report</a> on the NCEE's rapid survey in three states.
Please find below the press release and summary of the
report in three languages. Request you to go through it
and share in your networks. <br>
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<p>Warm regards,<br>
Marzia <br>
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<p><font color="#8f1919"><font color="#000000"><b>For
immediate release</b></font><br>
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<p><font color="#8f1919"><b>'Cries of Anguish' - </b></font><font
color="#8f1919"><b>Parents report loss of basic skills and
deep socio-emotional stress amongst children</b></font></p>
<p>The NCEE conducted a rapid households survey of parents in
Karnataka, Telangana and Tamil Nadu about their children's
education during the pandemic and the main finding of this
study is that <b>poor parents are desperate about the
education future of their children and fully conscious of
the devastating toll that prolonged school closure has
taken on the learning, socio-emotional development and
behaviour of their children</b>. This is the first study,
to our knowledge, that captures parents' thoughts and
opinions, after the opening of schools.<br>
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<p>Between <b>70 and 80 percent of households felt that their</b>
<b>children’s ability to read and write had declined or
stayed the same</b> (or they were unable to assess).
Parents highlight the changed behavior, lack of focus and
attention and the addiction to mobile phones amongst the
children.</p>
<p>The opinions about online education are unequivocal: that
children learnt virtually nothing. Parents are
overwhelmingly in favour of keeping schools open for
in-person learning. The study also highlights that the
period of school closures deepened inequality in the system:
While children from poor and marginalized families found it
challenging to even access online education, those parents
who could support their children’s online education felt
that their children had made some academic progress, even
during the pandemic.</p>
<p>We urge readers of <a
href="https://educationemergency.net/2022/03/cries-of-anguish/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">the attached report</a>
to go through the individual testimonies of parents, apart
from the quantitative data. It is our hope that policy
makers and administrators will also reflect this level of
deep understanding about the critical situation on the
ground while developing their policies and programmes.<br>
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- National Coalition on the Education Emergency (NCEE)<br>
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The NCEE is a group of individuals, organizations and networks
across the country which have come together to ‘resume and
renew’ school education. The NCEE working groups produce
research studies, curricular resources, guidelines for school
opening to support governments, teachers, parents and
communities to address the Education Emergency.<br>
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