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Filling a child’s new backpack with a box of crayons and school supplies is part of the bittersweet ritual of preparing a kindergartener for the first day of school. What parents may not realize is ...

Last school year was hard enough. Denise Ladson Johnson’s son Moses struggled with the abrupt transition to distance learning in the spring, with having to say goodbye to his teacher and classmates ...