Date &amp; Time: Tuesday, April 28, 2026 at 2 p.m. ET <br><br> In this 30-minute Ed Talk, participants will rethink what career readiness means in the AI era when perfection is easily produced as we ask ourselves the question: "If everything can be polished, optimized, and automated, what actually differentiates a student?"

How schools teach COVID still varies, and early research suggests textbooks often treat it in fragmented ways. In Ohio, some teachers use the pandemic to help students connect recent events to broader history.

Whether students in Wisconsin have access to career and technical education courses largely depends on if their school district pays for them, and that's because the state is one of just five that doesn't dedicate funding to these programs in public schools.