Natalia Mehlman Pertzela

professor of history at the New School; author of “Classroom Wars: Language, Sex, and the Making of Modern Political Culture”

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U.S. school kids lost two decades of reading and math progress, largely because of COVID-induced remote classes, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

COVID-induced learning loss means problem for racial justice

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