It may look like the pandemic is over; stadiums are open again, crowds are everywhere, and hardly a mask in sight. But COVID hurt a lot of things you can’t easily see, especially in schools. “I feel like I just need to stand on a mountaintop and just yell, ‘Take this seriously! Everything is at stake right now!'” said Geoffrey Canada, founder of the Harlem Children’s Zone in Manhattan.
He said that when it comes to how the pandemic affected education, the news was surprising, and definitely not in a good way. “We’ve got the data now, and things are bad; they’re actually worse than most of us thought,” said Canada.
