Leaders love to problem solve. So the next thing is in ... to coaches, to fans, to conceptualize the bubble, even partnering with Disney to make it the home of the NBA bubble during the pandemic.

Maybe it's not a student problem. Maybe it's a problem with how we assess those students. If we look at conventional approaches to assessing critical thinking, they are rather impressionistic.

TIME asked six experts how we got here, why the problem is so urgent and so hard—and what China and the U.S. can do now to solve it Why we’ve fallen short and why that’s no longer an option ...