The biggest education story of the 2020s isn’t the fall of college for all, but rather the sudden shift in K-12 education from false agency to real agency.
Why is there a shortage of air traffic controllers? Because the FAA hasn’t been serious about apprenticeship and every new controller had to move to Oklahoma City.
Young Americans are in a rush to work, but three-year degrees and the concomitant 25% discount pale in comparison to what they need, which is to bring work into school.
70% of CFOs report continuing to rely on Excel for budgeting and forecasting because legacy systems lack the ability to do complete financial planning and analysis.
Why do we allow universities receiving federal aid to shrug off work experience requirements when relevant experience has never been more important for career launch?
Schools already recognize that students can’t read books. But rather than solve the problem, they’re meeting students where they are. It’s an abdication of responsibility
Our revealed preferences now vary from our stated preferences for one simple reason: we fear for our children’s economic future. We’re making choices that seem safer.
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.
Government grants make sense when we have no idea what works. But where outcomes are easily defined and measured, government should simply fund outcomes.