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Colombia’s Education Crisis: Results from a Learning Assessment of…
Colombia’s Education Crisis: Results from a Learning Assessment of Colombian and Venezuelan Children
Investigation results
Venezuelan children in Colombian public schools are struggling to develop key literacy and numeracy skills. However, they are not alone–Colombian students also show that they are struggling to develop these skills.
Both in-school Venezuelan and Colombian students showed medium levels of literacy skills, performing below the benchmark for their grade in all subtasks.
Despite clear academic struggles, Venezuelan children showed greater SEL skills than children who are in school. Specifically, Venezuelan children showed higher levels of empathy and lower levels of hostile attribution bias, sadness and anger intensity than in-school Colombian and Venezuelan children.
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CONCLUSION
Since its inception, the International Rescue Committee has seen and understood the ways that investments in education can improve societies. Cúcuta is the latest example of where the "IRC" and his partners have endeavored to understand the best ways to ensure this continues for the years and decades ahead.
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Context
In geographic terms, the research focus is Cúcuta. This area is characterizad for being the most controversial border with Venezuela in the country.
Crisis
Assessments are rightly looking at understanding the barriers to education and trying to get an estimate of the number of children out of school. The international community is doing little to understand children’s foundational reading, math and social-emotional skills.
Educational programs will not know how to support them, policymakers will not know how to make decisions, donors will not know where to direct funding, and people sounding the alarm on the issue will rely on inadequate data.
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More than 4.5 million Venezuelans have left the country and the factors driving their displacement show no signs of abating. An estimated 1.7 million Venezuelans currently live in Colombia. About 460,000 of them are school-aged children.