RealClearPolitics links to a New York Times article that also appears in the Mormon Media Review (no paywall) entitled "I Taught Online School This year: It Was a Disgrace." You probably were aware many learning experiences were online because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The other DrC taught elementary school for seven years before completing her doctorate. After which she taught people to be teachers for the balance of her career. As a consequence of which she communicates with many active and retired teachers.
She and I have heard virtually all of the active teachers we've talked to say essentially the same thing - online didn't work for a lot of kids. It particularly didn't work for those kids who, for a variety of reasons, faced the greatest hurdles to educational success.
If a heads-up parent wasn't continuously looking over a kid's shoulder, keeping them on-task while the online learning was delivered, the kid's attention tended to wander or be non-existent. Many parents were unable or unwilling to provide this supervision. A fair number of kids just drifted away and stopped logging in, basically were truant for much of the year.
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A decade or more ago, I taught one of two courses online each term for several years, at the MBA level. I felt online students got an inferior experience. Mostly I ended up grading student written projects, those who wrote well got good grades.
Earlier, when I taught the same courses in the classroom, I lectured, graded written projects and gave closed-book exams that required internalization and application of knowledge. I believe the classical approach both required and evaluated a broader spectrum of student abilities and performance.
