Education

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Schools Reopen Across Southern Iraq and Khuzestan as Returnee Classrooms Strain Under Trauma and Shortages

Provincial education ministries in southern Iraq and Iran's Khuzestan province reopened more than 1,800 schools to returning displaced families on Monday, with aid agencies warning that overcrowded rooms, missing teachers and untreated trauma threaten to swamp the rollout.

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'An Entire School Year Lost': Displaced Children from Iran War Strain Host Systems from Amman to Erbil

More than 410,000 school-age children have been pulled out of classrooms across five countries since the Iran war began, UNICEF said Friday, warning that improvised arrangements in host communities were already buckling under the load.

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UNICEF Warns of Lost School Year as Displaced Children Across Iraq, Lebanon and Iran Exceed Three Million

More than three million children across Iraq, Lebanon, Iran and Yemen have not been inside a functioning classroom in over a month, UNICEF said Wednesday, warning that the war's youngest casualties were being measured in interrupted brain development and lost literacy.

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