Leading Education Through COVID-19

Upholding the Right to Education

As the COVID-19 Pandemic ravages the planet changes big and small are changing human lives and our future prospects. Among those changes, few other than the discovery and effective distribution of a vaccine will be as consequential as the changes taking place in our schools. The disruption to our schools could cause the biggest education setback in history, gravely impacting the lives of students, their future prospects, their communities and widening inequality in unprecedented ways. This is a crucible moment for education, one that will test our resolve and collective commitment to the idea that education is indeed a universal human right.This book examines how the Pandemic has disrupted educational opportunity, from the vantage point of leaders of the global education movement who, in a variety of organizations, work to advance the universal human right to education. The book illuminates how the Pandemic has impacted students around the world and transformed a variety of roles in the education eco-system. Illustrating the multidimensional educational impacts of this plague it shows how various institutions in this ecosystem interact and complement one another in attempts to sustain educational opportunity. Drawing on various leadership vantage points in the educational enterprise, the book provides a complex view of this impact and the responses to it, of the educational consequences of the Pandemic and of its possible aftermath.