The work ahead for the U.S. Department of Education “is going to get different,” said Education Secretary Dr. Miguel A. Cardona in a recent interview with K-12 Dive.
By that, Dr. Cardona means a shift from educators’ “heroic work” during the pandemic “to transformative change, to innovation, to really boldly addressing inequities.”
“And the challenges now are different than they were three years ago,” he added. “People are frustrated. People are fatigued. There’s more division now. So we’re gonna do what we do best: Bring people together around education.”
Read the full interview here.