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Inequities in access to education: Lessons from the COVID‐19 pandemic
Author(s) -
Walters Anne
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent behavior letter
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7575
pISSN - 1058-1073
DOI - 10.1002/cbl.30483
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , the internet , internet access , economic growth , political science , geography , socioeconomics , medicine , sociology , computer science , world wide web , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , economics
The COVID‐19 pandemic has brought attention to the stark inequities in public education worldwide, with the United Nations sharing these statistics: Schools closed in 191 countries, affecting 1.5 billion students and 63 million primary and secondary school teachers. Half of students did not have access to a computer, and 40% did not have internet access. A total of 56 million children live in areas that are not served by mobile networks — for example, in sub‐Saharan Africa. In the United States, about 7 million school‐aged children are in homes without home internet service.
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