Covid-19’s Devastating Impact on Asian Education

For millions of children, their education is likely to be permanently stunted

At about 1 o’clock on the sunny afternoon of January 12, the volcano at the bottom of Taal Lake 50 km south of Manila suddenly shuddered and blew up with a series of explosions that spewed ash and gases 15 km into the sky and sent a darkening plume to the northeast, covering a great swath of Luzon, the most populous island in the Philippines, with grit.

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