Schools are closing. Ebola taught us why that may be extreme
More than 390 million children in 29 countries have been affected by school closures aimed at slowing transmission of COVID-19, and the number is growing by the day. This is an education crisis with no parallel in recent history.
Public health officials may have good reasons for keeping kids out of school as they try to contain the spread of the virus. But we all need to understand that school closures have consequences.
Between 2014 and 2016, large numbers of schools were closed in
