The World Bank Education COVID-19 Response Team has been monitoring the status of a school closures and remote learning modalities since the beginning of the pandemic and joined forces with Johns Hopkins University and UNICEF to launch a COVID-19 Global Education Recovery Tracker in March of this year. The purpose of the tracker is to capture ongoing information about the global status of schools, teachers, and students amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This information is intended to be of use for education and public health policy stakeholders and researchers from around the world. In this second year of the pandemic, and as many countries are starting to move from emergency responses towards policies aimed for recovery, the tracker aims to support this process by focusing on data that can help build back better and more resilient education systems. Learn more about the tracker at https://www.covideducationrecovery.global.

Today, World Bank EdTech team member Maria Barron speaks with World Bank Senior Operations Officer Kaliope Azzi-Huck and World Bank Senior Education Specialist Tigran Shmis who lead this effort alongside their colleagues Melissa Adelman, Joao Pedro Azevedo, and Maria Barron.