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Will 2025 Be The First Year Of Population Decline? Oct 24, 2025

If we can do a better job putting Americans to work, we won’t need to attract as many new Americans to maintain growth.

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How Colleges Can Help Close The Internship Gap Oct 10, 2025

To provide relevant work experience for all students, colleges will need to invest in muscular employer engagement while simultaneously reimagining on-campus employment.

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What Havard Can Learn From A Dating App Sep 26, 2025

As top colleges reject thousands of supremely qualified applicants every year, their waitlists feel punitive. On the other hand, Raya’s waitlist has the energy of trying to get into a hot new club.

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Q: Are We Not Employed? A: We Are Devo! Sep 12, 2025

AI is in the process of devaluing degrees, making work experience more valuable, and transforming apprenticeships into critical national infrastructure.

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Stop Making Kids Cosine Their Lives Away Aug 29, 2025

There’s a Goldilocks solution to America’s math education crisis where relatable problems aren’t so simple that there’s no learning but not so complex and irrelevant that there’s no learning.

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Abundance And Apprenticeships Aug 15, 2025

Policymaking-by-anecdote is no way to run a country. That is unless you’re against abundance and apprenticeship.

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College's CVS Problem Jul 25, 2025

If colleges close themselves off to economic changes from scientific progress and digital transformation, they're likely to face dire consequences.

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Not The Best Day For Master’s Degrees Jul 11, 2025

The demise of Grad PLUS loans marks the end of the Golden Age of Master’s Degrees.

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Make Manufacturing (And Pest Control) Great Again Jun 27, 2025

Contrary to conventional wisdom, manufacturing jobs aren’t good jobs. But they can be good entry-level jobs.

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The Wreck Of The Class Of 2025 Jun 13, 2025

Unemployment and underemployment of college graduates were already at record levels. Now the Class of 2025 is taking on water.

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