Is School Out Forever?
Sunday, August 09, 2020
The devilishly difficult problem of reopening schools amid a global pandemic was perhaps best described by the Richmond, Virginia, superintendent of public schools: It’s “like playing a game of 3D chess while standing on one leg in the middle of a hurricane.” From ABCs to Ph.D.s, the global education infrastructure faces an unprecedented challenge of trying to balance competing health, learning and economic interests that affect pretty much everyone in society.
  But this is also a time of intense experimentation and transformation, where we are already seeing old models of schooling fall away and new ones emerging.
Today’s Sunday magazine examines what the strangest back to school in memory will look like around the world and what it means for the future of education. Because when it comes to moving against the virus, we’re a long way from checkmate.

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