764: School's Out Forever Mar. 11, 2022 Prologue Host Chana Joffe-Walt talks to teachers and principals about the unique challenges the pandemic has created in their daily working lives. (7 minutes)
Act One: Big Mother Is Watching When school closed and threw routines into disarray, one mom and daughter figured out a new way to make it work.
Act Two: The Case of The Vanishing Sixth Grader The pandemic moved lots of families around, and many children simply vanished from school, in person, and online.
758: Talking While Black Jan. 7, 2022 Act Two: The Farce Awakens After the murder of George Floyd, sales of books by Black authors skyrocketed. Now, there are efforts to ban many of the same books.