What We Can Learn From Child Care Centers That Stayed Open

As summer begins, Anya Kamenetz, education correspondent at NPR, and Joseph G. Allen, assistant professor of exposure assessment science, director of the Healthy Buildings program at Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health and co-author of Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity (Harvard University Press, 2020), talk about whether schools should open in September, and look to lessons on how to do it safely from child care centers that stayed open during lockdown to care for the children of essential workers.