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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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Why do we allow universities receiving federal student aid to shrug off work experience requirements when relevant experience has never been more important for career launch?
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Instead of responding seriously to a Congressional directive to evaluate changing the way we fund apprenticeships, the U.S. Department of Labor opted to troll the American people.
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For colleges and universities, the next few years will be a steel cage match against the federal government. As Mrs. McMahon enters the ring – strange as it seems – we now live in a world where higher education leaders who wish to avoid getting bodyslammed would do well to familiarize themselves with seminal moments in professional wrestling.
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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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