COVID-19: A list of education resources for policy & data nerds during the global pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to throw up challenges for policy makers around the world. In this time of uncertainty it is difficult to know what resources to help keep track off. Here is a (not very curated) list of resources to look at:

Data Visualizations

  1. Johns Hopkins Universities’ highly regarded dashboard on global COVID-19 trends.
  2. UNESCO has a dashboard focused on schooling disruption
  3. Our world in data has an excellent set of data visualizations as well.
  4. Visual Capitalist has an excellent set of infographics to help understand the magnitude COVID-19 pandemic relative to all known pandemics

Policy & Research focused content

  1. A series of blogs on education, child protection, data ethics and more from UNICEF
  2. The center for global development has a series of blogs and data visualizations.
  3. The Global Partnership for Education has provided specific COVID-19 related grants and is also publishing content
  4. A joint framework on re-opening schools from UNICEF, UNESCO, World Bank and the World Food Program.
  5. A guidance for re-opening public spaces from the US Centers for Disease Control.
  6. From UNICEF: COVID-19 Emergency Preparedness and Response WASH and Infection Prevention and Control Measures in Schools

Case studies

  1. Some examples of how learning continues from Ukraine to Indonesia from UNICEF.

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