That’s how I felt when the COVID-19 “baby bust” started to make news this winter. What data seem to show instead is that we’re having children later, and having fewer than our mothers and foremothers did. That’s felt especially true in the U.S., where mothers of young children were disproportionately harmed by COVID unemployment and prolonged school closures. Among other things, they begin with the radical notion that calculus is not necessarily the pinnacle of a typical high school math education. My colleague Laura Newberry spent time with the staff of the Redondo Union High School yearbook staff, which is trying valiantly to produce a yearbook that contains something other than screenshots of Zoom gatherings.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 25, 2021 02:02 UTC