The Best Paragraph I've Read:

When Covid-19 began to sweep across the country in March 2020, schools in every state closed their doors. Remote instruction effectively became a national policy for the rest of that spring.

A few months later, however, school districts began to make different decisions about whether to reopen. Across much of the South and the Great Plains as well as some pockets of the Northeast, schools resumed in-person classes in the fall of 2020. Across much of the Northeast, Midwest and West Coast,   school buildings stayed closed and classes remained online for months.

These differences created a huge experiment, testing how well remote learning worked during the pandemic. Academic researchers have since been studying the subject, and they have come to a consistent conclusion: Remote learning was a failure.

This paragraph comes from the New York Times's The Morning.  The title of the article is "New research is showing the high costs of long school closures in some communities."  The author is David Leonhardt.  You can read the full article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/briefing/school-closures-covid-learning-loss.html

Zac and Don discuss the findings on education during the pandemic.  They discuss what other data would be interesting to know concerning the pandemic and education.  They also wonder if people will learn any lessons about pandemics and education and use them in the future.

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The internet was coming.  The internet was coming.  The internet was coming.  When was it coming?  Soon.  How soon?  Not today, and maybe not tomorrow.  But definitely soon.  It was always never quite there.  And then, one day, there it was - impossible to avoid and impossible to recognize until the update was complete and all alternatives had been eliminated.  

There was no date for when the transfer of power occurred.  The record of the transfer has edited itself.   

This paragraph comes from Chuck Klosterman's book The Nineties.  You can purchase the book here: 

https://www.amazon.com/Nineties-Book-Chuck-Klosterman/dp/0735217955/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+nineties+chuck+klosterman&qid=1651107429&sprefix=the+nin%2Caps%2C257&sr=8-1

Zac and Don finish up their discussion of Chuck Klosterman's remarkable book.  

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