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Students sit in a classroom on the first day of the new school year at the Al-Amari refugee camp in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Palestine.
For many teachers and students, 2020 started out with a sense of normalcy.
But that quickly changed as the novel coronavirus began spreading around the world in the first few months of the year.
In March, lockdowns forced schools to close, and families transformed their living rooms, bedrooms, and kitchens into makeshift classrooms.
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Alice, 5, grabs her books that fell down after her daily study session at home during a lockdown in Santo Andre, Brazil.
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See the best national and international images of 2020 from the photojournalists of the Associated Press A protester carries a U.S. flag upside down as he walks past a burning building in Minneapolis on May 28, 2020, during a protest over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed a knee into his neck for several minutes.
Associated Press Voters mark their ballots at First Presbyterian Church in Stamford, Conn., on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020.
Associated Press Walter Carter, 74, of Woodbridge, Va., who attended the original March on Washington, attends 2020s March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28, 2020, the 57th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. s I Have A Dream speech. This march is a celebration anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, says Carter, and the issues are very similar even though so much time has passed.