Today, George and I are sitting down to record our 30th episode, and we wanted to thank all of you who listen in as we muse on the nuances of education, education policy, and what it means to be part of the American school system.

As we rang in yet another new year in the shadow of Covid, the Omicron variant, which a couple of months ago we probably would have thought was one of the minor evil superheroes in a Marvel movie, is changing the face of public education. Some schools are wide open. Some are fully remote. And that’s in the same town! In this episode, we’re going to ponder what we should do, as students, as teachers, as administrators in the midst of yet another wave of coronavirus infections, as we ask: how does the American school system recover from the pandemic, even as we’re still living in the pandemic?