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Why isn't a quality education offered to all children around the…
Why isn't a quality education offered to all children around the world?
Poverty
Families living in poverty often have to choose between sending their child to school pr providing other basic needs.
Students living in poverty often have fewer resources at home to complete homework, study, or engage in activities that helps equip them for success during the school day.
Nearly one-fifth of students nationwide are either living in poverty, attending a high-poverty school, or both.
Children from low-income households often lack access to books, sing-along toys, interactive games, and other early learning materials that support a child’s healthy development.
To put it into perspective, the ratio of age-appropriate books per child in low-income neighborhoods is 1 book per 300 children, compared to middle-income neighborhoods where the ratio is 13 books per child.
Technology
Many schools, particularly in rural and low-income areas, do not have technological tools they need to enhance students’ learning and about a quarter of school districts in the US do not have high-speed internet.
This situation has created a digital divide in the educational attainment and income of those who can readily access technology and those who cannot. The digital divide also means that millions of students in the US struggle to realize their full potential.
In an increasingly digital world, that means these students are at risk of being left behind and losing out on valuable opportunities.
Inequalities will also worsen unless the digital divide-- the gap between under-connected and highly digitalized countries is not addressed.
In the US alone, 24 million people don’t have access to high-speed internet and more than 20% of households do not have a computer.
Basic Needs/Sanitation
UN: In 2020, about one quarter of primary schools globally did not have access to basic services such as electricity, drinking water, and basic sanitation facilities.
Globally 29 per cent of schools do not have basic drinking water service, impacting 546 million schoolchildren.
1 in 3 primary schools and 1 in 4 secondary schools have no basic drinking water service.
One third of children without basic drinking water services in their schools live in the least developed countries and over half live in fragile contexts.
Less than one-half of schools in sub- Saharan Africa have access to drinking water, electricity, computers and the internet.
Lack of Qualified Teachers/Inadequate Teaching Materials
Teacher Shortage and lack of pay.
Educators have long felt the pressure of heavy workloads, low wages, and lack of resources to perform their jobs effectively.
Teacher shortages have caused class sizes to grow during the pandemic—but larger class sizes also contribute to educator burnout, which then leads to even more teachers leaving their positions.
Larger class sizes also negatively impact students, less time for teachers to provide individual attention.
COVID-19 Pandemic
https://youtu.be/3_EA7KMlro0
UN: Estimated 147 million children have missed more than half of their in-school instruction over the past two years, due to school closures caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic
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24 million learners (pre-primary to university level) may never return to school after the pandemic.
UN: Only 20 per cent of countries undertook significant measures to provide additional mental health and psychosocial support for students after school reopening.
