Is there a Learning Crisis in Punjab? : Initial Data Release from the SABER SD Survey
In 2018, the World Bank released World Development Report which showed that the world is facing a ‘Learning Crisis’. Following up from that report, the Bank has launched the Human Capital Project to mobilize more resources, including for the improv...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/425041625125461471/Is-there-a-Learning-Crisis-in-Punjab http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35978 |
| Summary: | In 2018, the World Bank released World
Development Report which showed that the world is facing a
‘Learning Crisis’. Following up from that report, the Bank
has launched the Human Capital Project to mobilize more
resources, including for the improvement of learning
outcomes. Subsequently, global leaders have been
increasingly focused on solving this learning crisis and
have renewed attention for Sustainable Development Goal 4:
Quality Education. Pakistan is an early adopter of this
Human Capital Project, and the new government is taking the
lead to address the root causes of the learning crisis. This
report aims to help the government with that agenda, by
quantifying the extent of the learning crisis, and to
highlight the main causes of the crisis. According the World
Development Report, the ‘Learning Crisis’ consists of three
main elements. The first is that access to schooling is
still unequally distributed. While there have been huge
efforts to expand schooling, there are still countries
(including Pakistan) with millions of children out of
school. Children living in regions with violence, children
from poorer families and children with physical or mental
disabilities are still often excluded. The second element is
that even those who are in school are often not learning
anything at all. In Malawi and Zambia, for instance, 89
percent of students could not read a single word by the end
of Grade 2. In India, that figure is 85 percent. These
numbers are important, as children who do not master basic
literacy will probably never catch up with the curriculum.
In other words, schooling is not necessarily the same as
learning. The third element of the learning crisis is that
the proximate causes of the learning crisis, low quality
teaching, student school readiness, school leadership and
school inputs, are not systematically addressed by actors in
the system. One of the reasons behind this is that there is
no systematic data collection on these factors. |
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