Fighting Coronavirus | Back to School | 17

American Innovations

Wondery

Steven Johnson, History, Kids & Family, Education For Kids, Science

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Back-to-school season is here, but students across the country aren’t going anywhere. Anya Kamenetz, NPR’s education correspondent, returns to the show to shed light on the greatest educational crisis of our time. How can we safely reopen schools? And what can we learn from countries that have tried – and failed?

Listen to Anya’s stories for NPR at https://www.npr.org/people/302894536/anya-kamenetz.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to American Innovations,
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0:17.0	From Wondery, I'm Stephen Johnson, and this is Fighting Coronavirus.
0:31.0	Last April, when the dramatic surge of COVID-19 made it clear that schools in the United States were going to have to switch to remote learning, I think many of us parents, teachers, students assumed that this was going to be a temporary measure while the public health authorities got the outbreak under control.
0:57.0	We'd hack our way through the Zoom classes and homeschooling for a few months, but by the fall, the people in charge would have figured out how to make school look like school again.
1:08.0	Well, that didn't happen. We're just weeks away from schools reopening, and COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are hitting new highs.
1:17.0	But even outside the worst hotspots, nothing is going back to normal.
1:22.0	My oldest son starts college this fall at a tiny school in a remote town that's been largely untouched by the coronavirus.
1:29.0	We thought that if any school could safely reopen, it would be his.
1:33.0	But he just learned a few days ago that his school is also going all virtual.
1:38.0	So what will going back to school look like this fall?
1:42.0	Back in the early days of the pandemic, we had Anya Kamenets on the show.
1:46.0	She's one of my favorite thinkers about education and virtual learning.
1:50.0	I'm using the author of books like The Art of Screen Time, and she's the NPR Education Correspondent.
1:56.0	This past Friday, Anya and I sat down remotely to take stock of what educators have and haven't figured out during the lost summer of 2020.
2:10.0	Hi, I'm Lindsey Graham, host of Wondering's Podcast American Scandal.
2:15.0	Our newest series looks at the trial of the Chicago Seven, a case involving protests of the Vietnam War and the legal fight that became a referendum on the soul and future of America.
2:25.0	Listen to American Scandal on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts.
2:30.0	In a four-part series, The Generation Y Podcast unravels the story of Khalif Browder, a young boy falsely accused of stealing a backpack and held it Recker's island for three years without trial.
2:42.0	This is a story about a young life caught in the middle of the justice system.
2:46.0	Listen to Generation Y on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts.
3:00.0	Anya Kamenets, thank you so much for joining us again on Fighting Coronavirus.
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