The Future of Education
Chasing Life
CNN
4.5 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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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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