“The full extent of the impact of the COVID-19 crisis has not yet been fully assessed,” stated Dr. María Ester Mancebo, a professor and researcher at the University of the Republic, and Dr. Denise Vaillant, dean of the Institute of Education at Universidad ORT Uruguay.
In the report *Learning Recovery Programs: An Assessment of the Evidence and Potential for Latin America* (of which they are the authors), they noted that the health crisis affected multiple aspects of education, such as “timely enrollment, dropout rates, grade promotion, and student learning outcomes.”
That is why, for them, it is essential to consider the “strategies for learning recovery that need to be implemented” in the wake of the pandemic.
In this context, Mancebo and Vaillant conducted a review of the literature on remedial learning programs at the elementary and secondary school levels. In other words, “educational interventions designed to bridge the gap between what a student knows and what they are expected to know.”
In addition to analyzing various programs at both the international and regional levels, the authors developed a series of recommendations for implementation in a post-pandemic context.
"Learning Recovery Programs: An Assessment of the Evidence and Potential for Latin America " was published in April 2022 as part of a partnership between the World Bank and the Inter-American Dialogue.