At the beginning of 2020, the problems faced by American schools and collegesincluded issues like slavery, school shooting, sexual assault and the use of technology.That all changed in March.The coronavirus pandemic sent students and teachers home,forcing schools in the U.S. and around the world to move classrooms online.Asha Choksi is head of research for Pearson Education.She saw the move to online learning as a chance to improve higher education."What it's done is, it's actually given a lot more power to students in terms of how, when and where they learn," she said.However, Stephanie Hall of the policy research group The Century Foundationargued that online education can never really replace in-person learning in fields like healthcare and teaching.Hall said, "Students need to experience…what it is they're learning about, reading about or hearing about in the classroom.And I don't know yet the degree to which technology can facilitate that."The health crisis also made it difficult for international students to stay in the United States.
