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I tried to locate a definition of "education" in this report because it seems like an obvious starting point. As far as I could get it is "attends school" and
by tenpies 4y ago
I tried to locate a definition of "education" in this report because it seems like an obvious starting point.
As far as I could get it is "attends school" and they flirted with it in "Reading, together with writing, numeracy, and socioemotional skills, is a building block for all the other education outcomes that societies care about."
Socioemotional learning stood out in there, not because of the SEL criticisms, but because it seems incredibly Western to think that there is a Correct Way that applies to the entire world.
- uniqueuid 4y ago"Learning poverty" is defined right at the outset as the inability to read and understand simple stories. So it's a low-threshold indicator of basic literacy. [edit]: Here's the wording from p 5: "One of the most intuitive indicators of the learning crisis is the learning poverty rate, which measures the share of children who cannot read a simple text with comprehension by age 10. "