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The College Choice Process Today: Value, Fit, and Confidence in an Uncertain Market

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Spring and Fall are the popular times for reports to be issued about higher education institutions and/or their students. A recently issued report from EAB, The New Path to Enrollment: Three Shifts Shaping College Choice, offers a useful window into the college decision process among last year’s high school graduates. Based on 9,516 responses from students […]

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NBOA’s Five-Year Snapshot: Independent Schools Are Stronger, but the Operating Model is Exposed

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The latest National Business Officers Association report offers a clear post-pandemic message for independent schools: the sector is financially stronger than it was five years ago, but the operating model is under growing pressure. NBOA’s Financial State of the Industry: BIIS 5-Year Trend Report 2021–2025 (note: the report is free to NBOA members and $125 for non-members) […]

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AI Analysis and AI Reporting Tools Are Getting Way Better

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I’ve been following the developments of generative AI tools since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022. I have no idea how many articles I’ve written about advancements and applications of LLMs. Occasionally, I’ll write about a personal project and my assessment of the capabilities of the AI tool versus a human (namely me). A […]

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AI in Academia: What Stanford’s 2026 AI Index Tells Us

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At nearly 400 pages, the 2026 Stanford AI Index is the ninth iteration of an annual report from the Stanford Center for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. I have written about the report previously and enjoy reading its insightful, statistic-driven narrative. The introductory comments from the co-chairs note that mass adoption of AI has occurred faster than […]

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You Are Not a Function – Is Higher Education Acting Like One?

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Over the past few months, I’ve become a more avid follower and reader of essays published on Substack. A recent essay by Brendan McCord, You Are Not a Function, argues something that feels both obvious and increasingly neglected: higher education institutions were not designed to produce workers; they were designed to form a foundation for intellectual development. […]

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Earnings, Underemployment, and Unemployment Rates for Recent College Graduates

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For nearly a decade, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has published quarterly and annual reports on labor market outcomes for recent college graduates. A footnote to the most recent report cites a NBER paper from 2016 that provided a foundation for the FRBNY report. The authors of that 2016 working paper, Jaison Abel […]

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Is Communication the Last Mile of Human Intelligence?

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A few weeks ago, I wrote an article about the value of a liberal arts education in the age of AI. Citing the importance of critical thinking, analytical reasoning, persuasive writing, and collaborative problem solving, I argued that AI increases the premium companies will pay for human judgment, something that a liberal arts education cultivates. […]

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In The Age of Four Million Books, We Must Improve Critical Thinking

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A recent Kenneth Whyte post I read cited a startling statistic: more than four million books were published in the U.S. in a single year. That figure, drawn from industry reporting, represents a dramatic increase driven largely by self-publishing and digital tools, namely AI. Four million books in one year translates to roughly 11,000 books per day, […]

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The 120-Credit Illusion: Why the 3-Year Bachelor’s Degree is on the Rise

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For more than a century, the American bachelor’s degree has been defined not by what students learn, but by how long they sit in classrooms. Thanks to the Carnegie Foundation’s pronouncement in 1906 that retirement pensions for professors would only be provided to colleges that adopted the 120-hour secondary standard, the 120 credit hours over […]

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The Problem Isn’t Choosing a Major, It’s When We Ask Students to Do It

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When my twin daughters were recruited by colleges, they were advised to apply to the business school because it was harder to transfer into the business school once they were enrolled at their respective colleges than it was to apply to it in high school. As D1 athletes, my daughters were required to meet weekly […]

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Artificial Intelligence/AI

EdTech

Higher Education

Independent Schools

K-12

Science

Student Persistence

The Future of Work

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