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This is part 1 of 2 blogs about the options teachers and educators have at their disposal to continue teaching online during the current widespread school closures.

In a country already struggling with an economic crisis, Syrian refugee learners are experiencing many layers of crises: fleeing their homes, learning in afternoon shifts within an under-funded public school system; living through economic collapse as non-citizens without social protections; and, now facing a global pandemic.

We can mitigate some losses and the unequal ways in which they will be experienced if we as educators, families, communities, and researchers focus on a few central lessons from other settings of school closure.

The COVID-19 crisis provides governments with an opportunity to simultaneously transform youth-state relations and minimize the appeal of violent extremist organizations. Here’s how.

This article highlights and advises on the issues that relate to adapting and updating previously developed IAI programs, including how to orient current audiences to listen and learn in new ways (e.g. "Learning in the Time of Ebola"). 

We are pleased to announce the publication of Journal on Education in Emergencies, Volume 5, Number 2, Special Issue on Refugees and Education, Part II!

The education in emergencies community can offer good practices for countries battling COVID-19 where education has been disrupted for a protracted period.

On this third blog post of my mini series “education in the time of coronavirus”, I reflect on 5 priorities that governments, donors, NGOs and individuals should consider to ensure continuity of learning for vulnerable, migrants, refugee and displaced young people living in developing countries and poor nations.

What can we do to continue educating students, while protecting everyone’s health and safety?

With more than 1.5 billion children and youth impacted by COVID-19 related school closures, there has been a push to explore online and digital resources to promote continuity via virtual learning.