Unfinished Business: What Must Come Next for Public Education, Five Years After Pandemic Shutdowns

The Current Crisis Five years after the pandemic disrupted education, public schools are still struggling to recover. Achievement gaps have widened, student performance is in decline, and many schools have reverted to an outdated, ineffective system that fails to meet today’s challenges. The pandemic exposed longstanding weaknesses in the education system—rigid structures, inequities, resistance to […]
Schools of Education Play a Critical Role in Fulfilling the Promise of AI

Observers have started to craft different narratives about where artificial intelligence (AI) will lead us, but we can’t know how the story will end. All we know for certain is that AI is rapidly transforming our world, from the classroom to the lab, the boardroom to the marketplace—and we humans aren’t ready. That’s especially true […]