One year ago, parents picked up their children from school on a Friday afternoon, knowing that they probably wouldn’t be coming back on Monday. Few suspected that the rest of the school year would be taught remotely.

Nobody guessed that an entire year would pass with millions of children out of school. Yet that’s exactly what happened. In hundreds of districts, students haven’t seen the inside of a classroom in 52 weeks.

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