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How have school closures during the Covid-19 pandemic affected children's education? This column argues that channels operating through schools, peer effects, and parental investments have all contributed to massively growing educational inequality during the pandemic. Among 9th graders, children from low-income neighbourhoods in the US are predicted to suffer a learning loss

For most of human history people took it for granted that every form of life was a unique creation. In general this meant that each ‘kind’ mated with its own kind to produce offspring.  For our ancestors that was patently obvious.  Lions did not mate with chimpanzees and so on. The differences between each plant and animal were seen as proof that a creator had been hard at work making all these different living creatures with a unique unchanging template for each. The difference...