Inside pandemic school School is back in session. It's a bit exciting, a bit scary, and a lot weird. Today we go inside the first day of school at Mount View Elementary School in White Center to see what pandemic school looks like in action. Kate Walters
Public Schools In A Maryland County Will Reopen Without Police Officers NPR's Michel Martin talks with Councilman Craig Rice and student Julia Angel about public schools in Montgomery County, Md., opening without police officers for the first time in 19 years.
Caught Between Parents And Politicians, Nurses Fear Another School Year With COVID-19 As kids head back to class, school nurses are stretched thin as they manage increased workloads and delta-variant surges. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with three school nurses about this year's concerns. Elena Burnett
Thousands Of Haitian Children Can't Return To School After Last Month's Earthquake Schools in Haiti's southwest are beginning the new school year, just weeks after an earthquake devastated the region. Carrie Kahn
Hurricane Ida's Impact On Students Could Be Worse Than Katrina, Expert Says Many New Orleans area students had re-enrolled in other schools within two weeks after Hurricane Katrina. This time, one expert predicts "five or six weeks of essentially no learning happening." Anya Kamenetz
Amanda Little: What Is The Future Of Our Food? How should we ethically feed our world? Are we supposed to return to organic pastoral practices or trust new technology? Journalist Amanda Little believes the answer lies in the middle. Sanaz Meshkinpour
Jasmine Crowe: What Can We Do To Tackle Food Waste And Hunger? Social entrepreneur Jasmine Crowe has one mission: feed more, waste less. Her company Goodr is tackling food waste and getting food to those who need it most. Sanaz Meshkinpour
Alexis Nikole Nelson: How Foraging Restored My Relationship With Food Forager and TikTok influencer Alexis Nikole Nelson shares how the great outdoors has offered her both an endless array of food options and an outlet to reconnect with her food and her culture. Sanaz Meshkinpour
Seattle faces shortage of school bus drivers as K-12 classes begin The first day of school had a late start for some students in Seattle Public Schools. Noel Gasca
These Students Grew Up Around Gun Violence. They Decided It Was Time To Talk About It. D.C. has long struggled with one of the highest rates of gun violence in the country. Three local students talked to their community about losing their loved ones and living with the grief. Sneha Dey
