RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Covid-19 pandemic had a profound impact on the country's education, exacerbating the already existing inequalities between the public and private systems and between poor and wealthy students, according to data from the Social Indicators Survey (SIS) released by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) on Friday, December 3.
In addition to having had far fewer classes (in person or remote) during the pandemic, the poorest students also faced the most diverse structural challenges - from the lack of internet and computers for distance learning to the absence of water and soap in . . .
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