Who Cares about K-12 Academic Progress?

Concern about our nation's children is currently at the center of intense public debate. While the pandemic caused virtually all schools nationwide to close by April 2020—keeping almost all K-12 students home for the remainder of the 2019-20 school year—children's mode of learning (fully in-person, fully remote, or a hybrid mix of the two) in 2020-21 has been highly variable.