Remote Learning was a Failure!!! How Should We Think About the Latest Research? Are there Lessons to be Learned for Future Pandemics? What Other Education Data Should be Collected?

The Best Paragraph I've Read: When Covid-19 began to sweep across the country in March 2020, schools in every state closed their doors. Remote instruction effectively became a national policy for the rest of that spring. A few months later, however, school districts began to make different decisions about whether to reopen. Across much of the South and the Great Plains as well as some pockets of the Northeast, schools resumed in-person classes in the fall of 2020. Across much of the Northeast, Midwest and West Coast,   school buildings stayed closed and classes remained online for months. These differences created a huge experiment, testing how well remote learning worked during the pandemic. Academic researchers have since been studying the subject, and they have come to a consistent conclusion: Remote learning was a failure. This paragraph comes from the New York Times's The Morning.  The title of the article is "New research is showing the high costs of long school closures in some communities."  The author is David Leonhardt.  You can read the full article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/briefing/school-closures-covid-learning-loss.html Zac and Don discuss the findings on education during the pandemic.  They discuss what other data would be interesting to know concerning the pandemic and education.  They also wonder if people will learn any lessons about pandemics and education and use them in the future.