August 31, 2020 Welcome to this edition of The Reader, a weekly roundup of Fortune stories and insights you need to know.
It's back-to-school season.
Some schools are reopening in person, with one university possibly running the best COVID testing operation in the U.S., testing students twice a week.
Others are beginning class online—recently enduring a four-hour outage on Zoom.
Meanwhile, parents are almost evenly split on sending their kids back to campus.
Read on for more on what the fall semester has in store.  Clifton Leaf
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 MUST READ One university may have the best COVID testing operation in the U.S.
The testing is so widespread on campus that it represented 20% of all tests administered in the state of Illinois and 1.5% of all tests administered nationwide.
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“As the back-to-school “season” has become a marketing phenomenon, it definitely suffers from expectations creep – and for working parents, that means lots of late-night trips to Staples and Target, long lines and big bills. Add in to that the challenging of managing new logistics – new schedules for the kids – and you’ve got full-on back to school stress.” —Here’s why back to school means ‘full on’ stress for parents by Laura Vanderkam, September 2015 . This email was sent to [email protected] Unsubscribe | Edit your newsletter subscriptions
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