Inside one district's battle against 'learning loss'

When school buildings shuttered in March of last year and districts were scrambling to connect with students virtually, administrators in the Guilford County Schools in North Carolina started looking for tutors. 

The district did what it could to ensure its 72,000 students kept learning through the pandemic, including being among the first to reopen classrooms. But its leaders knew from the start that some instruction would be lost, and that it would take an extraordinary effort to help students recover...