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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Brand college is damaged and it's likely we're too far down the path for non-selective colleges to change minds.
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The reason rage and resentment have become so pervasive is that while nearly all Americans are consumers of digital technology, a sizable proportion are shut out from the production side. Which means not recognizing the future because they don’t see themselves in it.
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