The popular narrative of vast teacher shortage brought to crisis levels by the COVID pandemic could saddle the nation with solutions that will only worsen the problem.
Because today's students will reinvent career pathways multiple times, they need a 21st-century toolkit of hands-on technical career skills and knowledge.
Arkansas developed one of the nation's first set of early grades computer science standards and requires middle school students to take an introduction to coding course.
The full return to classrooms should also bring together educators, administrators, families and communities to bring about a renaissance in instruction and student support, she said.
