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Chasing Life

The Future of Education

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.58K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

With this school year disrupted for so many, students and families are wondering what may happen in the fall. CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta speaks with CNN correspondent Evan McMorris-Santoro about how educators, administrators, and students, have begun to think about what school will look like in the future. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I believe one of the lasting legacies of this will not be the jobless rate for the unemployment

0:07.5

or how quickly restaurants can be reopened or we can have a major league baseball season.

0:12.2

It will be the health of our public education system.

0:16.2

That was Austin Butner.

0:17.8

He's the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest public

0:22.6

school system in the country.

0:24.7

And now he's wrestling with the same issue that all educators are facing.

0:29.5

As of this coronavirus pandemic, what will school look like in the future?

0:35.0

I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent.

0:39.1

And this is coronavirus, fact versus fiction.

0:47.3

As students head back to classrooms in other countries, schools are adapting in order to

0:51.7

keep students safe.

0:53.5

In Taiwan, for example, there are now plastic partitions around the desks of elementary

0:58.5

school students during lunch.

1:00.6

The Australian government has asked more vulnerable staffers in their schools to work from home

1:05.6

if possible.

1:06.8

In Denmark, cafeterias are disappearing and students now eat in their classrooms to avoid

1:12.4

large gatherings.

1:14.2

Now it's the United States turn to determine what must be done to open schools safely.

1:20.5

My colleague, Evan McMorris-Sentorow, has been covering the impact of the coronavirus pandemic

1:25.7

on the United States' educational system.

1:28.2

I talked with him about how and when students from pre-K to college might go back to classrooms.

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