The number of children in Brazil, aged between six and seven, who cannot read and write grew by 66.3% from 2019 to 2021 – explaining one of the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on Brazilian education.
The analysis was released this Tuesday (8) by the organization Todos Pela Educação, based on data from the Continuous National Household Sample Survey (Pnad Contínua), carried out by the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics.
In all, 2.4 million Brazilian children in this age group are not literate. The number corresponds to almost half (40.8%) of the entire group.
“The situation is worrying in several dimensions, as is the case of children’s literacy, studied in this technical note. The information reported by respondents to the IBGE survey (Pnad Contínua), which shows a significant increase in the number of illiterate Brazilian children, with a more serious impact on black and poorer students, corroborates what the learning assessments that and Municipalities have been applying to their students”, says an excerpt from the technical note “Impacts of the pandemic on children’s literacy”, released by the organization.
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Source: CNN Brasil
