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Former Sec. of Education on the pitfalls of remote learning
April 2020
PBS Amanpour and Company

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Over 1.5 billion children and youth remain out of school worldwide. Former U.S. Secretary of Education John King says that this will represent a lasting impact of the pandemic. He joins Hari Sreenivasan to talk about the challenges faced by some 50 million American studentsāand to share how a place of learning became a shelter when tragedy hit his home.
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