School closures due to COVID-19 have left over a billion students out of school. Simulating the Potential Impacts of COVID-19 School Closures on Schooling and Learning Outcomes: A Set of Global Estimates, by João Pedro Azevedo, Amer Hasan, Diana Goldemberg, Syedah Aroob Iqbal & Koen Geven (World Bank 2020, 57 pages, free download available here)
The dozen books and reports listed below offer very different perspectives on the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts – on business, education, health, and poverty – and on the prospects for an equitable and green public health and economic recovery.Īs always, the descriptions of these titles are drawn from copy provided by the organizations or publishers that released them.Ĭonsider these summer 2020 titles as constituting the first of many waves to come. Nevertheless, as schools open and close in response to fluctuations in case counts, as businesses tentatively resume operation, and as health care workers prepare for the possibility of another wave, journalists, policymakers, and researchers are seriously reflecting on the coronavirus crisis and how it might shape, in deep and permanent ways, our future. Vacations from school and work are over time now to prepare for fall and winter and for the next stages in our lives and futures.īut leaving the summer of 2020 behind is difficult – because the experience that defined it, the COVID-19 pandemic, still determines so much of public life. Labor Day traditionally marks the end of summer.
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