Sabine Terlecki is the deputy lead of donor relations at the Global Partnership for Education.
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, children and youth all over the world are no longer in classrooms. Home schooling has become the new normal. This is a new situation for everyone, everywhere — but in developing countries, COVID-19 poses enormous challenges for children and parents and further exacerbates existing inequalities.
In my own country of Germany, the education system normally functions quite well. However,...