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COVID-19 Learning Losses: Rebuilding Quality Learning for All in the Middle East and North Africa Year of publication: 2021 Author: Hana Yoshimoto | Jeannette Vogelaar | Brenda Haiplik Corporate author: UNESCO | United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) | World Bank An entire generation of children in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is estimated to be affected by the education crisis determined by the COVID-19 pandemic, with potential impacts that are going beyond the immediate/short term and also well beyond the education domain itself, with consequences on children’s socialisation, mental well-being, and future perspective of being active members of their society, including in the labor market. More information on the impact of the crisis would help countries to put in place strategies to mitigate the impacts. Timely investment and action to prevent extreme impacts of this crisis on education are of paramount importance in MENA, which already tackling a learning crisis before the COVID-19 outbreak.This publication delineates the overall education status in MENA after the breakout of COVID-19 pandemic, by presenting the education responses in MENA, and assessing the potential learning loss through a simulation analysis, recommendations are provided on how to build back better and enhance access and quality learning for all. 
Technical Guidelines for the Return to Educational Establishments Year of publication: 2020 Author: Ximena Bugueño Corporate author: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) This document presents the guiding principles of the return to schools process and recommendations to prepare as an educational team. It offers guidelines to call for participation and communication with families and students, organize learning, reception and socio-emotional support activities in mixed modality, and to implement measures that care for the health of the community. 
Free Play in Practice in Linyi Kindergartens Year of publication: 2022 Corporate author: UNICEF China This video introduces UNICEF's Free Play in a kindergarten in Linyi, Shandong Province, which is dedicated to fostering children's creativity and independence. 
A Virtual Visit to Aleppo in Syria Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: 联合国儿童基金会 This video looks at education for children in the war-torn city of Aleppo, Syria, and the work UNICEF is doing there. 
The Enlightenment of Singapore’s Bilingual Education Policy to Tibet’s Bilingual Policy Year of publication: 2022 Author: 郭彤 | 刘雨乔 | 王晓晨 This article introduces the history of Singapore's bilingual education policy and uses it as a basis to explore the implications for Tibetan bilingual education policy. 
The Development of Children’s Fair Judgment and Its Influencing Factors Year of publication: 2021 Author: 李永强 This article introduces theories and research methods on fairness judgments and, from there, explores the developmental processes and factors influencing children's fairness judgments. 
School Bullying Prevention Guide Year of publication: 2018 Author: Keen Rugbi Corporate author: United Arab Emirates. Ministry of Education This guide has been prepared to assist schools in combating bullying among students, which has become prevalent in schools in different countries of the world, to a degree that calls for searching for solutions to this problem. Bullying may occur in simple cases that are controlled by the students themselves, and that these cases cause psychological and physical damage. There are number of students who find it difficult to handle the situation on their own, the school where bullying cases occur frequently becomes a stressful place for children, hindering their ability to learn greatly. 
Media Literacy Education to Counter Truth Decay: An Implementation and Evaluation Framework Year of publication: 2021 Author: Alice Huguet | John F. Pane | Garrett Baker | Laura S. Hamilton | Susannah Faxon-Mills Corporate author: RAND Corporation Media literacy (ML) education has emerged as a promising approach to slowing the spread of Truth Decay, described as the diminishing role that facts, data, and analysis play in political and civil discourse. Several factors contribute to Truth Decay, including a rapidly evolving information ecosystem and overburdened educational institutions. Many teachers believe their students lack the complex skills that are necessary to navigate today’s information- saturated world. This gap—between students’ existing competencies and those required to engage responsibly in a fast-paced media environment— could lead to negative consequences for individuals and society writ large.However, teachers report a lack of guidance around promoting ML education in their practice, and rigorous research about what kinds of ML educationwork best, and in what conditions, remains limited. This report presents a framework for implementing and evaluating ML educational efforts. Following an introduction to the framework, the authors discuss six steps of ML implementation and evaluation: setting ML learning expectations; identifying conditions that can influence ML instructional efforts; exploring instructional resources; identifying measures of ML competencies; monitoring progress; and finally, measuring the summative impacts of ML education on student learning. By bringing this information together for implementors—such as district decisionmakers and teachers—as well as evaluators, the authors emphasize the important connections between these too often separate groups. 
School Closures and Regional Policies to Mitigate Learning Loss due to COVID-19: A Focus on the Asia-Pacific Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: UNESCO Institute for Statistic (UIS) Global school closures as a result of COVID-19 have caused learning losses for millions of children despite efforts to deploy remote learning options. Greater economic insecurity among families may also affect school enrolment as many struggle to pay school fees, or require children to work to supplement family income. Ultimately, this will lead to rising dropout rates, estimated to be as much as 4% in a region where 128 million children and young people were already out of school before COVID-19. The largest number of learners at risk reside in South and West Asia.Together, the education and economic fallout from the pandemic threaten progress toward the Sustainable Development Goal for education (SDG 4). Even prior to the COVID-19 disruptions, progress towards SDG 4 was lagging in many countries in the Asia-Pacific and without significant contributions to education finance, the pandemic threatens to push the region even further behind.This report breaks down the effects of school closures. It considers, for example, how many schools were closed, and when, across the Asia-Pacific, and the effects on different levels of education from early childhood education, through to primary and secondary school. The report analyses country efforts to implement remote learning, and strategies to mitigate learning losses as the proportion of students expected to fall below minimum proficiency levels is expected to rise.To achieve SDG 4, all children and young people, and especially those in marginalized groups, need support to get the education they need and deserve. 
Communication and Information Programme Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: UNESCO UNESCO is the UN specialized agency building peace in the minds of people through education, the sciences, culture, communication and information. Our mission is to foster intercultural dialogue and sustainable development, by promoting the free flow of ideas.By adopting a multi-disciplinary and inclusive approach, UNESCO works with both duty-bearers and rights-holders across the world to develop and implement targeted actions that are born out of local needs, which ensures a holistic and results-based approach for sustainable change.In the field of communication and information, UNESCO defends and promotes freedom of expression, media independence and pluralism, and the building of inclusive knowledge societies underpinned by universal access to information and the innovative use of digital technologies.Through capacity-building, policy advice, international cooperation, monitoring and foresight in the fields of freedom of expression, access to information, and digital transformation, UNESCO will continue to empower key actors with a view to ensuring that fundamental freedoms are guaranteed online and offline, in line with international standards.This is all the more relevant to ensure the ethical development and use of emerging technologies, which have a growing impact on all aspects of the world’s societies. Citizens will also be empowered to enjoy these fundamental freedoms through the development of 21st century skills and the fostering of enabling environments for media pluralism and diversity.