Newell has been a teacher for about 20 years, and sometimes it showed. He's got to me like kind of a cob vive, at least in how he looks. And generally, he's just one of those teachers that kids love. Newell treated the verses like stanzas in a poem; even his best students struggled.
School’s been back for a month. Today, Explained spent a month checking in with Cramer Hill Elementary to find out how it’s going.
Today’s show was produced and reported by Miles Bryan with help from Jillian Weinberger, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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