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Cory Turner

As a new year starts, schools prepare for fewer masks, more learning and joy

Superintendent Dr. Errick Greene on the first day of school in Jackson, Miss. His first stop: North Jackson Elementary School. (Jeffrey Pierre/NPR)

More than 50 million children are slowly returning to classrooms for the new school year — the third year in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic.

If the first year was defined by widespread school closures, and the second by bitter fights over masking, what stories will define this year?

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