The report by the Working Group on Human Rights in India and the UN (WGHR) can be accessed here
‘Public Expenditure on Children – An Analysis of Pre and Post Covid period across 14 Indian States’
This report by the Centre for Budget and Policy Studies (CBPS), Bangalore analyses public expenditure on children in the age-group of 0-18 yrs during the pre and post pandemic period. It argues for greater attention to their needs to build resilience and compensate for the losses they have suffered.
The Paused Classrooms – Research report – Orissa RTE Forum and Save the children
Download the report here Nutritious food through school midday meal not available Children feel isolated, anxious, bored, uncertain and experience fear and grief Due to pandemic related economic stress, households are forced to send children for wage work. Girls being married at young age A large percentage of students do…
Education disrupted – UNICEF DATA
Number of students affected by prolonged school closures
COVID-19 Transmission in US Child Care Programs
“No association was found between exposure to child care and COVID-19” The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on child care and schools. Within 1 week of the World Health Organization’s declaration of a pandemic, 107 countries had implemented national school closures.
Compendium of Research prepared by Working Group on Research
The Working Group on Research is working on creating a compendium of research studies relating to school education during the pandemic. You can find it here.
Regression in Learning: The High Cost of COVID-19 for India’s Children
This brief examines the education crisis that has affected close to 250 million children in India due to school closures implemented as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Compensating for Academic Loss: Online Learning and Student Performance during the COVID-19 Pandemic
This paper estimates the effects of online learning on student performance, using administrative data on ninth graders from three middle schools located in the same county within Baise City of China which enforced different educational practices from mid-February to early April of 2020
Learning Loss versus Learning Disruption
This research focuses on the impacts on academic achievement of time out of school under ordinary circumstances, neglecting the wider social, organizational and disruptive issues characteristic of unplanned closures.
The Longer‐Term Impact of COVID‐19 on K–12 Student Learning and Assessment
This study examines how classroom assessment, teaching and learning, and measurement and interpretation of student growth have been affected by the sudden switch of schools to online instruction.