700 Days of COVID & Counting

The pandemic’s endless impact on students and schools: From classroom closures to learning loss, the explosion of ed tech, a mental health crisis and lost milestones, 2022 marked yet a third academic year profoundly disrupted by the pandemic. As schools struggled to return to action, and as education leaders confronted the monumental task of getting kids back on track, The 74 took a long look back at this 700-day emergency, and published an array of features that considered all that’s changed for a generation of young Americans — and what comes next.