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Teach Your Children Well (Or At Least Better Than David Crosby) Feb 17, 2023

With apprenticeship-like pathways, teaching becomes an option for millions of talented professionals interested in impact as well as income.

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When The College Of Last Resort Is A Resort Feb 3, 2023

An amenities strategy built entirely for show marks a High Point of higher education shamelessness

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Skills-Based Hiring Is Like Pornography Jan 21, 2023

“I know it when I see it” describes the current approach to skills-based hiring.

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Edtech Enters Its Golden Age Jan 6, 2023

2023 is the first year it will be impossible to imagine education without education technology.

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The Alternative To College Is… (Drumroll Please) Dec 17, 2022

An alternative to college strategy is unlikely to succeed unless there’s a clear alternative to support

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Yale And Harvard Fly Private Dec 2, 2022

Higher education is trifurcating into poor, rich, and super-rich, with opting out of rankings an indicator of the latter.

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Love’s Learnings Lost Nov 19, 2022

K-12 leaders need to get serious about combatting Covid learning loss.

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College Before Work = Cart Before Horse Nov 11, 2022

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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Abolish Career Services Oct 28, 2022

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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Are There Candidates For This Job On Mars? Oct 14, 2022

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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