Author Justin Reich is quoted in the NY Times Magazine in Emily Bazelon’s article “Will This Be A Lost Year for America’s Children.”

“Once schools shuttered in the early days of the pandemic, educators quickly discovered the possibilities and limits of distance-learning technologies,” notes Justin Reich, director of the M.I.T. Teaching Systems Lab and author of the book “Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education,” which will be published this month. “Months later, it is obvious that the bright points of learning tech are substantially offset by the loss of schools as places for camaraderie, shelter, nutrition, social services, teaching and learning. Many things that happen in schools simply cannot happen at a distance.”

Bazelon, Emily. (Sept 11, 2020). Will This Be A Lost Year for America’s Children. New York Times Magazine. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/11/magazine/covid-school-reopenings.html