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COVID-19 and the Class of 2021
Education Week in 2020 began tracking academically promising high school graduates to see how they fared after COVID-19 disrupted their senior year, isolating many them from friends, teachers, and college counselors. In these articles, we check in on the Class of 2021 as the pandemic drags on, finding that in many ways their challenges are even greater than the previous cohort’s, and we check back in on a few 2020 grads.
Coverage of the education of exceptionally promising students who have financial need is supported in part by a grant from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, at www.jkcf.org. Education Week retains sole editorial control over the content of this coverage.