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🗓️ 6 October 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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The covid-19 pandemic starved young brains. Estimates suggest that globally schoolchildren may be eight months behind where they’d normally be. Host Anne McElvoy asks Jaime Saavedra, global director of education at the World Bank, how kids can catch up after “the worst educational crisis for a century”. They discuss the education policies that could make a difference, and why political will is the key to implementing them.
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1:08.3 | The ringing of bells across playgrounds. That shuffled of shoes down corridors |
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