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On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

The intergenerational impacts of global learning loss

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

Talk Show, News, Npr, Daily, On Point

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In 2020, almost every single child on planet earth was out of school, due to COVID.

Lost school years. Lost learning around the world. What impact will it have, for generations? Robert Jenkins, Mary Goretti Nakabugo and Olavo Nogueira join Meghna Chakrabarti.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:53.4

This is on point.

0:54.7

I'm Megna Chakrabardi.

0:56.8

Robert Jenkins is with us.

0:58.2

Robert, let me ask you, since February of 2020, the start of the global pandemic, how long

1:05.0

were schools closed in, say, Mexico?

1:09.5

Well, it's an interesting question because indeed, we've seen a wide range in how long schools

1:16.7

have been closed, depending on which country you're speaking about.

1:20.0

In Mexico, in particular, it's 70 weeks.

1:23.8

So that's about a year and a half.

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