President Joe Biden might have hit his 100-day goal of reopening the majority of K-8 schools for in-person learning, but there are still a lot of unmet challenges facing the new administration.
They include reopening high schools, smoothing out tensions with the teachers unions, as well as repairing racial and economic disparities that revealed themselves during the coronavirus shutdowns.
To be sure, the pandemic has changed education in the United States forever. It cast a critical light on school financing, the ability of students, teachers, and parents to adapt to a new scholastic landscape, and gave teachers more power than they'd had in a generation.