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Are Children Really Learning? Exploring foundational skills in the midst of a learning crisis

Research Report Non-Peer Reviewed
Suguru Mizunoya, Peggy Kelly, Diogo Amaro, Sakshi Mishra, Garen Avanesian, and Yixin Wang

UNICEF's new report offers unique insight into the extent of the learning crisis by providing an in-depth picture of which children are most at risk of not acquiring foundational learning skills. The analysis of 32 low- and middle-income countries and territories uses newly released data to examine the equity perspective of the crisis, exploring learning outcomes among different subgroups of children, with a focus on the most vulnerable.