It's been 12 months since the coronavirus pandemic sent the nation's students home. How many have returned to classrooms? That's a straightforward question, but one that's proven exceptionally difficult to answer.
On this episode of "The Report Card," https://www.aei.org/profile/nathaniel-n-malkus/ (Nat Malkus) discusses his newly launched https://returntolearntracker.net (Return to Learn Tracker (R2L)), which monitors the instructional status of over 8,500 school districts on a weekly basis. https://collegecrisis.org/team/christopher-r-marsicano/ (Chris Marsicano), an assistant professor at Davidson College and the founding director of the https://collegecrisis.org/ (College Crisis Initiative (C2i)), also joins to share his work tracking colleges and universities' responses to Covid.