{"id":481823,"date":"2022-01-23T23:35:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T23:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/audio\/2022\/01\/1110372"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:35:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T23:35:06","slug":"unicef-education-chef-insists-on-reopening-schools-amid-growing-learning-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/01\/23\/unicef-education-chef-insists-on-reopening-schools-amid-growing-learning-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"UNICEF education chef insists on reopening schools amid growing learning gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was already a learning gap before the pandemic, with disadvantaged and marginalized children lagging far behind in terms of educational achievement.<\/p>\n<p>Since the onset of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/coronavirus\" title=\"Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)\" class=\"word-link\" >COVID-19<\/a>, which has seen millions of children affected by school closures, it has become a gulf, and by some estimates, around 70 per cent of 10-year-olds can\u2019t read a simple piece of text.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Jenkins, the Director of Education at UN children\u2019s agency, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicef.org\/\" title=\"United Nations Children\u2019s Fund\" class=\"word-link\" >UNICEF<\/a>, spoke to Conor Lennon from UN News ahead of the International Day of Education, marked on 24 January, and began by explaining the severity of the COVID effect on children\u2019s schooling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/audio\/2022\/01\/1110372\">UN News<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was already a learning gap before the pandemic, with disadvantaged and marginalized children lagging far behind in terms of educational achievement.<br \/>\nSince the onset of COVID-19, which has seen millions of children affected by school closures, it &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481823"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483010,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481823\/revisions\/483010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}