Texans for Education Reform Reforms are always difficult at first. But while the pandemic forced an abrupt slowdown in modern life, it also provided an opportunity to reexamine how we can prioritize learning and healthy development both in and out of school. This report offers recommendations for how Phillips Academy Andover, an independent boarding school in Massachusetts, can update its processes for departmental review and teacher review to develop a more coherent instructional system. First, the Biden administration recently extended the pandemic-induced pause in student-loan payments to May 1, 2022. Voices from the Classroom 2023: A Survey of Americas Educators By administering the tests to incoming students and upon their graduation, school officials will have a means of telling whether their departments are contributing to students academic growth, or just going through the motions. Most colleges and universities proclaim that they turn students into critical thinkers. That, however, does not mean what you might think; in the world of higher education, critical thinking means acceptance of various doctrines (such as Critical Race Theory) that are hostile to America and its traditions. Below, experts from the Brown Center on Education Policy identify the education stories that theyll be following in 2022, providing analysis on how these issues could shape the learning landscape for the next 12 monthsand possibly well into the future. Recently, I argued in a Martin Center article that the Our higher education system fails leftist students. Such assessments will enable school leaders to tell the weak departments that they must either improve or face elimination before they drag the institutions reputation down. How will countries learn from implications of out-of-school children (including social isolation and child care needs)? It has therefore started a massive debate, not just in the US, but also in Britain and France. John Engberg (he/him) is a senior economist at the RAND Corporation.