A silent and unequal education crisis. And the seeds for its solution.

Jan 12, 2021

A pupil uses an abacus to calculate during a mathematics lesson, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Thika school for the blind in Thika town of Kiambu county in Kenya October 29, 2020. Picture taken October 29, 2020. REUTERS/Monicah Mwangi - RC2OVJ9D9CMN

Without the necessary resources, remote learning is inaccessible for poorer students. Image: REUTERS/Monicah Mwangi

Jaime Saavedra

Global Director, Education Global Practice

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