By Ann K. Howley
In pre-pandemic days, some educators might have argued that the American school system was already in need of change.
The past two years have posed unprecedented challenges for teachers, administrators, students and parents, who have had to deal with lockdowns, masks, remote learning, vaccination, and teacher shortages. Schools have been on a roller coaster of change. But if education was ripe for modernization and reform, nobody could have guessed that a worldwide pandemic might create opportunities to rethink existing educational structures.
So how has Covid changed education, and what is the outlook for the future of education?
