{"id":1291423,"date":"2022-02-11T12:22:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T17:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1291423"},"modified":"2022-02-11T12:22:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T17:22:52","slug":"study-child-illiteracy-in-brazil-surges-66-after-lockdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/study-child-illiteracy-in-brazil-surges-66-after-lockdowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Child Illiteracy in Brazil Surges 66% After Lockdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstudy-child-illiteracy-in-brazil-surges-66-after-lockdowns%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1291423&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/brazil-literacy-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The number of illiterate six- and seven-year-olds in Brazil <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20220208-child-illiteracy-booms-in-brazil-with-covid-19\">surged<\/a> by 66 percent from 2019 to 2021, which is a time period coinciding with prolonged school closures across Brazil due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]he number of illiterate six- and seven-year-olds in Brazil rose from 1.4 million in 2019 to 2.4 million last year,\u201d AFP reported on February 8.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThat represents 40.8 percent of children in that age group \u2014 a worrying sign for a country that has been hit particularly hard by Covid-19 [Chinese coronavirus], with widespread school closures that have been particularly detrimental for the poor,\u201d according to the news agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was the largest percentage since record-keeping on childhood illiteracy in Brazil began in 2012,\u201d AFP noted.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian charity Todos Pela Educacao (\u201cAll for Education\u201d in Portuguese) first reported the findings cited by AFP on February 8. The charitable group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnbrasil.com.br\/nacional\/numero-de-criancas-brasileiras-que-nao-sabem-ler-e-escrever-cresce-66-na-pandemia\/\">based<\/a> its report on data from a national survey of Brazilian households conducted by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Todos Pela Educacao said Brazil\u2019s recent surge in child illiteracy was directly <a href=\"https:\/\/g1.globo.com\/educacao\/noticia\/2022\/02\/08\/numero-de-criancas-que-nao-aprenderam-a-ler-e-escrever-aumenta-na-pandemia-aponta-levantamento.ghtml\">tied<\/a> to \u201cthe suspension of face-to-face classes [that] forced education networks to adapt in the last two years,\u201d Brazil\u2019s GloboNews reported on February 8.<\/p>\n<p>Five million children between the ages of six and 17 years old in Brazil did not have access to education in November 2020 according to the findings of a United Nations Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicef.org\/brazil\/media\/12566\/file\/enfrentamento-da-cultura-do-fracasso-escolar.pdf\">report<\/a> published in January 2021. More than four million of these five million children were enrolled in schools but were unable to participate in remote learning or in-person classes for most of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Many Brazilian children who failed to learn how to read or write from 2019 to 2021 were enrolled in schools but simply could not adjust to remote lessons during the pandemic, according to the accounts of parents who spoke to GloboNews on February 8.<\/p>\n<p>Vanusa Alves told GloboNews her daughter Marcelly, 7, has not learned how to read or write properly due to her struggle to transition to remote learning during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>According to Alves, Marcelly \u201ccompleted the first year of elementary school in 2021, during the pandemic, at a municipal school in Malhada, a city in the interior of Bahia [a state in northeastern Brazil].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe did the activities on a digital platform, but hardly took classes. She shared her cell phone with her sister,\u201d Alves recalled of her daughter\u2019s learning difficulties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo this day, she doesn\u2019t know how to read and write with the ease expected of a 7-year-old,\u201d Alves acknowledged.<\/p>\n<p>Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/virus-outbreak-sao-paulo-caribbean-brazil-business-36fa0e82581a1fdd6b97f2c34ccc9b1d\">opposed<\/a> coronavirus lockdowns, including school closures and suspensions on in-person learning, throughout the pandemic. The country has endured widespread school shutdowns despite its president\u2019s anti-lockdown stance because Brazil\u2019s government is based on a federal system in which its 26 individual states (and one federal district) all hold policymaking powers, including the ability to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicef.org\/lac\/en\/media\/29491\/file\">close<\/a> public school systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of illiterate six- and seven-year-olds in Brazil surged by 66 percent from 2019 to 2021, which is a time period coinciding with prolonged school closures across Brazil due &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1291423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1291423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1291423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1291423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}