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30 Issues: Schools and COVID-19
As schools around the country grapple with in-person and remote learning, Emily Oster, economics professor at Brown University, author of several books and creator of the website COVID-Explained, talks about what's at stake in the presidential election on questions of how to balance health concerns against the need for in-person instruction, the federal government's role in guiding school policies and the COVID-19 School Response Dashboard she helped create to capture data in the absence of action on the part of the Trump administration.