strategies to build back better. Data from Early Grade Reading Assessments in Ethiopia,
Kenya, Liberia, Tanzania, and Uganda suggest half to over a year's worth of learning loss. In
modeling losses over time, we found that learning deficits for a child in grade 3 could lead to
2.8 years of lost learning by grade 10. While COVID-19 has stymied learning, bold, learning-
focused reform consistent with the literature reviewed in this paper—specifically reform on …