COVID-19-19的大流行破坏了全球教育。各地的教育工作者（每个级别）都匆匆实施“学习中心”的远程学习课程，并试图继续保持学生与改变环境的互动。当前学年以教室和远程学习的混合为标志，有时会从一个爆发中从一个到另一个到另一个的过渡。
西弗吉尼亚州州长鲍勃·怀斯有将Covid-19与其他自然灾害比作，说：“任何自然灾害都有三个阶段。There’s triage, there’s transition to what is next, and if you’re very fortunate and deliberate, then transformation…We either take this very disrupted, very tumultuous year to plan and build a system that we want or we stumble along, always transitioning but rarely improving.”