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Both education and housing have become games rigged in favor of wealthy, older Americans. One way to kill two birds with one stone is to scale investment in earn-and-learn pathways to careers in the building trades.
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What if the great AI-in-school debate is a distraction from a more fundamental problem? Focusing on how AI can or should be used to help students learn is trivial in comparison to solving for how to give students experience using AI to actually do things.
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Last week’s executive order marks the first time an administration has set an apprenticeship goal rather than simply continuing to shell out apprenticeship dollars to workforce boards and community colleges. More important, the order signals a culling of ineffective "train-and-pray" workforce development programs and a redirecting of those dollars to apprenticeships.
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There’s a fundamental connection between America’s imbalanced approach to economic mobility and the populist consensus on erecting trade barriers to protect manufacturing. Protectionism is a mistake that’s attempting to correct for the mistake of college for all.
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If the American public is inundated with mixed messages regarding the value of college, there’s a good reason for it: results are decidedly mixed. College is worth it for many, but not for all, or – when you add the growing legions of underemployed to stop-outs and drop-outs – even most. As currently constructed, college is an increasingly risky proposition.
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The biggest education story of the 2020s isn’t the Trump administration’s capricious crackdowns, the fall of college for all, or the rise of apprenticeships and earn-and-learn pathways, but rather the sudden shift in K-12 education from false agency to real agency.
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Why is there a shortage of air traffic controllers? Because the FAA hasn't been serious about apprenticeship and, for a generation, every new controller had to pick up and move to Oklahoma City.
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If we had focused on jobs instead of training in seeking to fairly distribute the benefits of international trade, we would have invested much more in Trade Adjustment Assistance.
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Young Americans are in a rush to work, but three-year degrees and the concomitant 25% discount pale in comparison to what they need, which is to bring work into school.
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Learning to use business software is different from learning to think. But if the software is sufficiently complex, how different is it really? What if AI’s primary impact on education isn’t in the classroom, but rather shifting the locus of learning to outside the classroom?
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