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Our schools already recognize that students with digitally-determined attention spans can’t read books. But rather than meet the problem head on, they’re attempting to meet students where they are. It’s an abdication of responsibility.
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In education, our revealed preferences now vary radically from our stated preferences for one simple reason: we fear for our children’s economic future. So while we continue to say one thing, we’re making choices that seem safer.
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Since we’re not likely to change our biology or behavior, the only way to close education’s growing gender gap is to change our college-for-all environment.
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Government grants make sense when we have no idea what works. But where outcomes are easily defined and measured, government should stop trying to pick winners and simply fund outcomes.
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Since no one knows how much they’ll owe once this all shakes out, it shouldn’t be surprising that nearly half of all borrowers are not making payments. Our current approach to costly college tempered by loan forgiveness is a confusing combination of control and lenience.
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It’s high time we recognized college rankings for what they are: clickbait, no better than those slideshows advertised with alluring photos at the bottom of less-than-reputable news sites.
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The decline and fall of ERP has transformed entry-level jobs and is driving the experience inflation afflicting millions of new and recent grads.
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American higher education doesn’t merit the fit-of-spite punishments envisioned by J.D. Vance. Colleges and universities are like big, beautiful butterflies that shouldn’t be broken on a wheel.
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College admissions consultants are taking a human and social toll. They are developmentally detrimental, send the wrong messages to teens, and fuel inequality. Why do college admissions offices continue to put up with them?
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With recent Supreme Court decisions, the golden era of regulation appears to be at an end. But regulation’s demise has the potential to shift higher education and workforce policy and funding from the ideological to the practical.
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