A new report on the state of education systems in the United States finds that the COVID-19 pandemic profoundly disrupted learning and efforts to regain ground and better prepare American students to meet college and workplace expectations need to include greater inclusivity, defined priorities, shared vision, and more time invested in students.
What You Need To Know
The Time Is Now: Reimagining World-Class State Education Systems was produced by the 2020-2021 cohort of the Legislative International Education Study Group, composed of 12 legislators — including Hawaii Rep. Justin Woodson — and eight legislative staff members from across the country
The group convened monthly in 2020 and 2021 to study common components of high-performing, equitable and efficient education systems around the world, including those of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maryland, Canada, Estonia, Finland, Hong Kong; Singapore and Switzerland
The group found that existing inequities in educational opportunity were exacerbated by the pandemic, leaving struggling students even further behind
The report builds on the work of the first Legislative International Education Study Group, which operated from 2016 to 2017
The report, The Time Is Now: Reimagining World-Class State Education Systems, was produced by the 2020-2021 cohort of the Legislative International Education Study Group, composed of 12 legislators—including Hawaii Rep. Justin Woodson— and eight legislative staff members from across the country. The program is administered by the National Center on Education and the Economy and the Southern Regional Education Board.
