How Covid Stole Years from Children

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4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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During the pandemic, experts seemed to have plans on how to open up bars, malls, and airports, but no real idea about how to open schools consistently across the country and how to put children’s needs first. In her new book “The Stolen Year,” education reporter Anya Kamenetz offers a thorough autopsy of how Covid unfolded for kids. Beginning with the early days of the pandemic, Kamenetz examines how the intense pressure Covid put on schools exposed the inequities woven into the fabric of American life, including the impact of racism, childhood poverty and hunger, inadequate childcare, and dysfunctional politics, among other issues. We’ll talk with Kamenetz about what went well, what went wrong, and where to go next. Guests: Anya Kamenetz, education reporter and author, "The Stolen Year: How Covid Changed Children's Lives, and Where We Go Now," "The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life" and "The Test: How to Survive Our National Obsession with Standardized Testing." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:34.3	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Nina Kim. Coming up on forum, a Harvard pediatrician in 2021 summed up the impact of pandemic school closures this way. All kids will be affected. Some will get through this and be fine. They will learn from it and grow.
1:39.3	But lots of kids are going to be in trouble.
1:42.3	Education reporter Anya Kamenetz has written about the kids who going to be in trouble. Education reporter Anya Kamenetz
1:45.1	has written about the kids who were and are in trouble.
1:48.9	She's done an autopsy of the first year of the pandemic
1:52.2	and its impact on school-age children.
1:54.6	And she finds the cost was enormous.
1:57.3	Can we make it up to them?
1:59.0	We'll talk with Kamenetz, whose new book is called The Stolen Year.
2:03.2	Join us.
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