How severe is the global learning crisis? Only a third of all 10-year-olds are able to read and understand a simple written story.
Children attend class at a UNICEF-supported school in Mbandaka, in the Equatorial Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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As a result of the worst shock to education and learning in recorded history, learning poverty has sharply increased in low- and middle-income countries, with 64 percent of children estimated to be unable to read and understand a simple written story by age 10, according to the latest data.
Another new UNICEF report shows
