Cramer hill elementary started the year with a lot of coved protocols in place, mandatory masking and weekly testing. A recent survey of 200 of the biggest school districts found three quarters of them have a mask mandate. It's gong to take a while to figure out exactly how the pandemic has impacted school age kids nation wide,. But there is some preliminary data, and it's already pretty clear. One the pandemic definitely caused learning loss.
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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