Coronavirus | ‘School closure has led to loss in foundational abilities’

How badly were students, especially those in lower classes, impacted by the sudden and extended closure of schools in March last year as COVID-19 took its toll on society? A field study by Azim Premji University paints a grim picture. Children not only missed out on the regular curricular learning they would have acquired had schools remained open, but are also ‘forgetting’ what they had learned in previous year.