Lockdown education cannot wait but….

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Lockdown education cannot wait but….

While the less-disadvantaged parents and caregivers are arranging online learning for their children, learners who depend on government-subsidised classroom-based education wait at home and hope for a miracle.

Policymakers on their part must be worried about how the lockdown will impact on leaners education and in the long run on Zimbabwe’s ability to deliver on sustainable goal 4 to its children.

In researching for this article I came across a 2017 article by Quinn and Polikoff that said on average learners’ achievement scores declined over normal school holidays by one month’s worth of school learning.

found that something as simple as sending text messages over school holidays to parents of primary school learners at risk of holiday loss was effective at improving the reading scores of third and fourth grade learners.

The video shows a state of the art prevention equipment designed to check learners and disinfect them at many different points within the school.

Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

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