This COVID learning coverage needs to acknowledge the impact of desires to get things "back to normal" in schools (and the rest of the United States) as quickly as possible. Now we're getting more data that documents how short-sighted and damaging those desires were https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/briefing/covid-learning-losses.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wE4.m0fT.C1xF6mHQy4M0&smid=url-share