Learning Environments under COVID-Induced School Closures: Evidence from Vietnam

This Insight Note analyses how Vietnam's schools responded to the COVID-induced closures in 2020 and shows that  Vietnam was in many ways an outlier in that it flattened its epidemic curve early in that year roughly three months after schools were first shut down. While the period of school closure in Vietnam was brief, the country’s example may provide lessons for other nations that faced, and are still facing, the educational consequences of the pandemic.