digiLEARN Founder Speaks at National Governors Association’s 2022 Education Policy Advisory Institute

digiLEARN founder Gov. Bev Perdue recently spoke at the the National Governors Association’s (NGA) Governors’ Education Policy Advisors Institute, which took place September 15-16 in Greensboro, North Carolina. The Institute convened 27 Governors’ policy advisors and state officials and featured speakers and experts focused on discussion topics ranging from K-12 academic recovery to student and staff well-being to educator recruitment and retention.

Gov. Perdue is also Chair of the Executive Committee of the National Assessment Governing Board, which oversees National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), or “The Nation’s Report Card.” She gave an overview of the recently released NAEP long-term trend assessment results and urged Governors’ offices to use NAEP data to drive state conversations on ways to address amplified student learning gaps.

“I’ve spent decades in education as a teacher, a policymaker, a governor, and now, as the founder of an education nonprofit focused on innovation and chair of the National Assessment Governing Board for the second time since the pandemic started. And I firmly believe our nation has an educational crisis on its hands — one that predates COVID but has certainly been exacerbated by the pandemic. It’s never been more urgent to correct course and make education a national priority,” Perdue said in her remarks.

”My call to all of you today is to take up this issue and lead. Governors: make education the national priority it needs to be in your states. Advisors: Use the data and recommendations I’ll share here today and your deep knowledge of what works in your state to assist and support your leadership. We must do this for the sake of our children. And we must do this for the future success of our states and our nation.”

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