This lecture explores how COVID-19 has impacted early educational outcomes, especially through the shift to online and remote learning. We’ll look at what countries around the world have learned from using tools like Zoom and other non-face-to-face teaching methods. It’ll also look at what we can learn from overseas education models: Do we really need 13 years of school before college—and then four (or more) years after that? The senior year of high school is often seen as the least useful, and in places like the UK, students finish college in just three years. Is it time to rethink the whole structure?

