Uganda’s Record-Breaking Two-Year School Closure Led to… No Decline in the Number of Kids Who Can Read?

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Uganda’s Record-Breaking Two-Year School Closure Led to… No Decline in the Number of Kids Who Can Read?
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A couple weeks ago, Uganda finally ended the longest national school closure on record, reopening its public schools after nearly two full years. One might anticipate a fairly dramatic decline in learning levels. Indeed, in a very non-scientific poll of my twitter followers, the dominant view was that reading levels would collapse. That is not exactly what the Uwezo team found in their data, however. On Uwezo’s headline measure of reading competency, the new data reveal essentially the opposite: an improvement.
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29/03/2022, 08:52
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Schools2030. (n.d.). Uganda’s Record-Breaking Two-Year School Closure Led to… No Decline in the Number of Kids Who Can Read? Center For Global Development. Retrieved March 29, 2022, from https://www.cgdev.org/blog/ugandas-record-breaking-two-year-school-closure-led-to-no-decline-number-kids-who-can-read