The pandemic’s lost students

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🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The search for the students who have gone missing during the pandemic. And, listeners share what has brought them joy this year.

Many students have failed to show up for online school since classrooms closed one year ago. Even before the pandemic, districts had to track down children who had stopped showing up or failed to return for a new school year. But this year, such cases are happening in unprecedented numbers, forcing districts to employ extraordinary efforts to track down students, to ensure they are safe and have the resources to learn.

Education reporter Moriah Balingit rode around Detroit with one of the many people tasked with tracking these missing students down.

And March 11 marks one year since the WHO declared the coronavirus a pandemic. We wanted to know: What has brought you joy in the last year?

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:07.0	Hello, Hayoung.
0:08.0	Here's the Nuri Zabak from the Washington Post.
0:10.0	Hi, this is Beth Ryan, heart of the Washington Post.
0:12.0	Glory, Arightani, over at the post.
0:14.0	I'm G.
0:15.0	This is Post Reports.
0:16.0	I'm Martine Powers.
0:20.0	It's Thursday, March 11th.
0:25.0	Today, the students that have disappeared during the pandemic
0:29.0	and finding joy in the time of COVID.
0:37.0	I actually started noticing this phenomenon in the spring
0:41.0	that there were kids that a lot of teachers just couldn't find
0:45.0	after school reconvened.
0:52.0	Mariam Blingett covers education for the post.
0:55.0	For example, in Sacramento, which is my hometown,
0:59.0	there were about 2,000 students who went missing
1:02.0	in between when schools closed
1:04.0	and when they reopened four weeks later.
1:07.0	And when I say reopened, I mean virtually.
1:12.0	So I had noticed this in the spring
1:14.0	and I was curious to know if this was an issue
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