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Seeking A Meeker DC Clique Mar 15, 2024

Apprenticeships provide greater safety and equal opportunity than any other postsecondary pathway. And that’s before any new rules. Today’s registered apprenticeship is a quality apprenticeship.

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The Scientology Of College Admissions Mar 2, 2024

Why has applying to college become as disorientingly complicated as Scientology?

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Stop The Presses: Iowa Solves One Big Problem, And Perhaps An Even Bigger One Feb 16, 2024

Why don’t colleges and universities acquire and operate pro-social enterprises to provide students with relevant work experience?

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How Edtech Has Fueled The Parental Rights Movement Feb 2, 2024

With online gradebooks informing and empowering parents, millions of parents now expect to know what’s happening at schools.

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Pretty Much The Only Thing I Learned From The Harvard Disaster Jan 19, 2024

Harvard Professor Hochschild’s comments demonstrate universities view non-degree pathways, non-traditional students, and apparently even non-traditional students in degree pathways, as inferior.

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The Safety Dance Is Making Us Less Safe Jan 5, 2024

The Safety Dance is no longer safe at college or anywhere in education and workforce. It’s high time we allowed short-term training and apprenticeships to dance if they want to.

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College Or Chipotle? A Scary Choice Dec 15, 2023

Our current system forces disadvantaged students to choose between unbearable risk and unbearable jobs.

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The College Premium Isn’t What Georgetown Says It Is Dec 1, 2023

Georgetown Center on Education and Workforce's soothing self-talk provides a false sense of understanding of the complex process of employer hiring.

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Research Universities Love Research… Except When It Involves Student Learning Nov 18, 2023

When it comes to edtech, colleges are prisoners of their own research-first agendas.

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The Plot To Kill Shop Class Nov 3, 2023

With AP classes and weighted GPA, the College Board has killed CTE and discovery in high school.

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