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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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Policymaking-by-anecdote is no way to run a country. That is unless you’re against abundance and apprenticeship.
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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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The demise of Grad PLUS loans marks the end of the Golden Age of Master’s Degrees.
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Contrary to conventional wisdom, manufacturing jobs aren’t good jobs. But they can be good entry-level jobs.
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Unemployment and underemployment of college graduates were already at record levels. Now the Class of 2025 is taking on water.
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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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