Checks and Balance: Lacking class - a podcast by The Economist

Nearly half America’s children are yet toreturn to the classrooma year after the pandemic began. President Biden says it’s a national emergency, but he has already diluted a pledge to reopen the majority of schools in his first 100 days. Why is gettingback to schoolso hard?

We hear fromThe Economist’sUS policy correspondent Tamara Gilkes Borr and Adam Roberts, our Midwest correspondent.

John Prideaux, our US editor, hosts with New York bureau chief Charlotte Howard, and Jon Fasman, US digital editor.

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