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Within the current nursing school timeframe, no amount of work-integrated learning or clinical rotations could allow nurses to master hundreds of care protocols before taking the NCLEX. What’s needed is on-the-job training, which takes time and costs money.
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America has always had an economic elite. It’s also always had an intellectual elite. But never the twain did meet until college became the country’s sole pathway to economic advancement.
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A viable answer to the ultimate question of Education, Employment, and Everything (really moving the needle on socioeconomic mobility and rekindling the American Dream) is more likely to look like an apprenticeship than the current tuition-debt-classroom industrial complex.
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The biggest problem with American public education is that responsibility for teaching children has been restricted to a cloistered profession. Technology now makes it possible for many more to get involved and make a difference.
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Being prepared for the last mile requires quantitative fluency with a strong dash of statistics and data analytics.
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When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Higher education's nail is expensive multi-year degree programs. And students continue to get hammered.
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A school’s brand defines not only current future students, but also thousands of alumni who thought the deal with their alma mater was signed, sealed, and delivered. It was, of course, until David Geffen stepped forth with $7.9M per year.
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Just as Democrats have spent years using Green Jobs to mainstream the fight against climate change, jobs can help galvanize a Sputnik moment for cybersecurity.
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There is an edtech gap between America and China. But contrary to what you may have heard, America is winning.
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The ultimate legacy of America’s student loan debacle is college and university hiring and spending plans that benefit the quadrangle set who work there more than students.
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