Dr. Terry Stoops, director of the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, discusses the role of parent-led learning pods developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Stoops offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.
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