(SF Gate) – Nearly six years later, a generation of first-year college students is still feeling the fallout, shaped by years of online high school, isolation and disrupted learning during some of their most formative years. Even as college life is back to business as usual, educators say the pandemic’s academic and emotional aftershocks remain. The students in the “COVID cohort,” or those who graduated high school after 2020, are starting college with noticeable learning gaps and deep anxiety about belonging, effects that experts warn could linger for years. (Read More)