“I know it when I see it” describes the current approach to skills-based hiring.
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2023 is the first year it will be impossible to imagine education without education technology.
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An alternative to college strategy is unlikely to succeed unless there’s a clear alternative to support
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Higher education is trifurcating into poor, rich, and super-rich, with opting out of rankings an indicator of the latter.
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K-12 leaders need to get serious about combatting Covid learning loss.
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It’s time to reverse the high school to college to work order we’ve had for the past 50 years.
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Because students now have access to Handshake and its network of 750,000 companies, career services has an illusion of progress. That’s career services theater
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Hiring managers should look for technosignatures: is there something in a candidate’s “atmosphere” that demonstrates an aptitude to quickly master technical skills?
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Rather than the muddled stacking we're currently seeing, it would be more productive to simply staple new credentials to something solid, like degrees or jobs.
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If we want apprenticeship to become a viable alternative to hard-to-afford, hard-to-complete degrees, it's time to start funding actual apprenticeships rather than community colleges.
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