The two years that Miguel Cardona has been in the nation’s top education job haven’t exactly been serene: In June, the Supreme Court rejected President Joe Biden’s student-loan-forgiveness plan and, in another ruling, essentially overturned affirmative action. The nation is in the midst of both a teacher shortage and a wave of book-banning attempts. At the same time, students are still working to recover from pandemic-era learning loss.
The Secretary of Education covered all that, plus ChatGPT, in a July conversation
