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American Education’s Most Turbulent Year

Selected coverage of how the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted American education

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Exclusive: Large Districts Losing Students; Boom Towns, Virtual Schools Growing

Linda Jacobson

700 Days Since Lockdown: COVID’s ‘Seismic Interruption to Education’

Linda Jacobson

Downsize Schools, or Keep Them Open & Hope Students Come Back?

Beth Hawkins

An Inside Look at Spy Tech Used on Students During Remote Classes — and Beyond

Mark Keierleber

New Data: Red States Offered 432 More Hours of In-Person Learning v. Blue States

Asher Lehrer-Small