A large study shows that a large number of children faced learning delays without compensating them later due to the strict measures of the Covid-19 pandemic.
A large study showed that a large number of children faced learning delays without compensation later, due to the strict measures taken at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to Agence France-Presse.
The study, published Monday in the journal Nature Human Behavior, indicated that these findings "confirm the fear that the pandemic has caused significant learning delays" for children.
The researchers, who based their work on about 40 studies conducted in about 15 countries, including European countries, the United States and South Africa, pointed out that children lost the equivalent of a third of one school year.
This figure gives only a very simplistic idea of the situation because there are large discrepancies precisely with regard to the environments from which children come. It is likely that children from poorer communities experienced greater learning delays.
The study's principal author, Bastian Bithauser, pointed out in a press conference that education is one of the factors, and perhaps the main factor that "determines how a person's entrance to working life will be, his success in the labor market, and his ability to support himself."
It is worth noting that the study is the most complete research work to date on this topic, although it is largely missing information on the conditions of poor countries.