When the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered campuses across the country in 2020, the social and academic impacts it would have on students were both expected and dreaded. 

Kids are back in class now and with their friends, but three years later, a new study has revealed that students’ scholastic progress in the past year is still coming up short and has even declined. 

So what’s it going to take to get students back on track?

In this episode of Bay Current, KCBS Radio news anchors Eric Thomas and Margie Shafer got some answers for today’s “Ask an Expert” segment from Meg Honey, ethnic studies and history teacher at Northgate High School in Walnut Creek and adjunct faculty member at Saint Mary's College and University of the Pacific.