For each of us, that day in March 2020 when we began sheltering in place to help stem the spread of the deadly coronavirus will
live in infamy. For 463 million students around the world — 17 million in the U.S.— it is also the day when structured learning
stopped. That is the estimated number of students who were unable to access classrooms remotely. Most of them reside in poor
communities of color.
“We don’t even know where they [the students