Now, education has to be about learning to thrive in a transforming world

Children’s education has been thrown into upheaval by the pandemic. Even bigger disruptions will follow. Yet we have failed to use the so-called ‘Great Pause’ to look again at what we need schools to do. In their new book, Valerie Hannon and Amelia Peterson (LSE) argue that we need serious debate about the purpose of our education systems.