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K12 Education

Centering the Rising Generation: Dr. Janice Jackson on Screens, AI, and the Future of Schooling

Are screen bans solving the right problem, or just creating new ones? Host Mike Palmer welcomes Dr. Janice Jackson, Executive Director of the ⁠Education & Society Program at the Aspen Institute⁠ and former CEO of ⁠Chicago Public Schools⁠, for a conversation that trades hyperbole for nuance. Janice traces her path from CPS history teacher and debate coach to superintendent, then to founder of ⁠Hope Chicago⁠, and now to Aspen. There she helps lead the new ⁠Rising Generations Strategy Group⁠, a cross-sector, cross-partisan, intergenerational effort that puts young people at the center of the conversation, not just on the input list.

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