Standardized testing returned this month, after the pandemic put North Carolina’s end-of-year exams on hold last spring. Federal officials say the scores provide data that will help chart academic recovery next year. In the last of a three-part series, education reporter Ann Doss Helms looks at the anxiety created at Oakdale Elementary School when state exams are used to sum up a year of trauma and turmoil.

In this second of a three-part series on how the pandemic played out for students, educators and families at Oakdale Elementary School in northwest Charlotte, WFAE education reporter Ann Doss Helms looks at hybrid instruction. Juggling remote and in-person students while handling tech glitches and monitoring COVID-19 safety is a lot to handle.

In the first in a three-part series looking at how the pandemic played out in one elementary school in northwest Charlotte, educators and parents at Oakdale Elementary adapt to the one constant in the 2020-21 school year: change.