{"id":1540122,"date":"2022-07-05T15:04:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T19:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1540122"},"modified":"2022-07-05T15:04:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T19:04:15","slug":"shocking-number-of-10-year-olds-are-unable-to-read-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shocking-number-of-10-year-olds-are-unable-to-read-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Shocking Number Of 10-Year-Olds Are Unable To Read, Report Says"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fshocking-number-of-10-year-olds-are-unable-to-read-report-says%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=1540122&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--><p>Roughly 70% of 10-year-olds in low and middle-income countries cannot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/education\">read<\/a> following school <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/school-lockdowns\">lockdowns<\/a>, according to the World Bank, while American children of the same age are experiencing similar issues.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/news\/press-release\/2022\/06\/23\/70-of-10-year-olds-now-in-learning-poverty-unable-to-read-and-understand-a-simple-text\">report<\/a> released by the international financial institution and other entities last month found most 10-year-olds in those nations are \u201cunable to understand a simple written text\u201d \u2014 a sharp increase from 57% before COVID led governments around the world to shutter schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolitical leaders and society must swiftly move to recover this generation\u2019s future by ensuring learning recovery strategies and investments,\u201d World Bank Global Director for Education Jaime Saavedra remarked. \u201cWe owe it not only to the children and youth of this generation, but to ourselves \u2014 in their minds rests our future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Increased \u201clearning poverty\u201d was most severe in Latin America and the Caribbean, where the number of children at the end of their primary school careers who could not work through a simple text surged from 50% to 80%. Children in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa now have 78% and 89% learning poverty rates, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Shocks to household income were among the causes of the dismal learning outcomes, yet school lockdowns played a significant role. Though learning poverty is highest among African children, lockdowns in the region \u201ctypically lasted only a few months,\u201d according to the World Bank \u2014 leading to more minor disruptions compared to other parts of the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProlonged school closures and unequal mitigation strategies have worsened learning inequality among children,\u201d the report said. \u201cEvidence is mounting that children from lower socioeconomic backgrounds and other disadvantaged groups are suffering larger learning losses. Children with the most fragile grasp of foundational literacy before the closures are most likely to have suffered larger learning losses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the generation of students examined by the World Bank could lose $21 trillion in potential lifetime earnings \u2014 an upward revision from the $17 trillion estimated last year.<\/p>\n<p>In the United States, research likewise confirms that illiteracy rates are rising due to COVID lockdowns. Children between kindergarten and second-grade scoring \u201cbelow benchmark\u201d for literacy surged from 21% in 2019 to nearly 35% in 2021, according to a University of Virginia <a href=\"https:\/\/pals.virginia.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/jsddwu1006\/files\/legacy-pdfs\/PALS_StateReport_Fall_2021.pdf\">study<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, American public schools most reliant upon virtual instruction and mask-wearing experienced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/public-schools-with-more-masking-remote-classes-saw-largest-enrollment-drops-study-reveals\">most severe declines<\/a> in enrollment over the past two years, while \u201cdistricts that returned to in-person more quickly\u201d are the same districts seeing an enrollment recovery, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/05\/20\/public-school-enrollment-drops-covid-19\">American Enterprise Institute and the College Crisis Initiative<\/a> at Davidson College.<\/p>\n<p>American Federation for Children National Director of Research Corey DeAngelis told The Daily Wire that multiple studies have confirmed how \u201cpublic school districts with stronger teachers unions were less likely to reopen in person.\u201d One peer-reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1111\/ssqu.12955\">study<\/a> from DeAngelis and Columbia Business School research scholar Christos Makridis examined 835 school districts, finding that \u201cschool closures are uncorrelated with the actual incidence of the virus, but are rather strongly associated with unionization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese academic studies weren\u2019t necessary, however, because families saw it all unfold right before their own eyes,\u201d DeAngelis remarked to The Daily Wire. \u201cTeachers unions fought reopening schools every step of the way and even lobbied the CDC on reopening guidance. Meanwhile private schools, daycares, grocery stores, and other private businesses were able to figure out reopening in person from the get-go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The consequences of learning loss could be dire for the students impacted by lockdowns. Economists from the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Wharton School <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/covid-school-closures-will-hurt-us-economy-for-decades-economists-project\">forecasted<\/a> that American economic productivity would be reduced by 3.6% over the next three decades due to school closures. Since labor productivity is \u201can integral component of the production of goods, services, and wealth in an economy,\u201d students affected by \u201creduced education and lower productivity\u201d will be a \u201cdrag on the future GDP of the United States for decades in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roughly 70% of 10-year-olds in low and middle-income countries cannot read following school lockdowns, according to the World Bank, while American children of the same age are experiencing similar issues. A report released by the international financial institution and other entities last month found most 10-year-olds in those nations are \u201cunable to understand a simple &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1540207,"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-1540122","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\/1540122","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\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1540122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1540207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1540122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1540122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1540122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}