A week ago, I asked if there was any hope of improving student outcomes in U.S. public schools. I mentioned an article written by Michael Horn that discussed the Out of the Box report published by New Classrooms. I reread the Out of the Box report last week and have a few more thoughts. As […]
Last week, author Kevin Carey published an article in Vox titled The incredible shrinking future of college. Mr. Carey, a vice president of education policy and knowledge management at New America, has been writing about higher education for years. More than eight years ago, I reviewed his book, The End of College, which portrayed the […]
The recent release of Grade 4 and Grade 8 math and reading assessments results from the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) triggered many articles across the U.S. Most of the articles placed some of the blame for the decline in math and reading scores to the cancellation of in person classes due to […]
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Last week was National Apprenticeship Week. Opportunity@Work has been a proponent of apprenticeships and recently released a report in collaboration with Lightcast titled The Changing Face of Apprenticeships. Opportunity@Work is an independent 501(c)(3) that “develops and tests platforms to provide tech-enabled solutions to solve the opportunity gap and rallies public, private, and non-profit partners to […]
Joshua Macht’s article, published last week in the Boston Globe, provides another perspective on the credentials market from the viewpoint of a former CEO. Mr. Macht leads off discussing the number of job openings at his former company and the debate that ensued as to whether the company should eliminate its requirement that the candidates […]
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Last week, I read a tweet from Jeff Selingo indicating that Coursera was partnering with Georgetown University to offer a bachelor’s degree in liberal studies. The tweet led to this Forbes article written by Michael T. Nietzel, president emeritus of Missouri State University. Dr. Nietzel mentioned that he read about the new degree from Coursera’s […]
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Press releases intrigue me; particularly press releases from public companies. Assuming the public company’s public relations team is required to have a review for compliance with multiple Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulations, a press release can often seem watered down. I’m still trying to figure out whether or not yesterday’s edX press release about […]
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Over the summer, a friend of mine asked me if I would be a luncheon speaker for a group of retired executives. The group was looking for someone to speak about the Crisis in Higher Education, and he thought I would be the perfect speaker given my two decades of involvement with online higher education. […]
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Read the entire article here. Part 4 ended with a discussion about the percentage of students enrolled in online classes in the fall of 2018 as well as the concentration of those enrollments in a small number of institutions. Thus far, we have seen how the involvement of the federal government in providing financial aid […]
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Read the entire article here. Part 3 ended with a discussion about The Global Auction published in 2010. Harvard Business School professor and Innovators Dilemma author Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring teamed up to write The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out in 2011. Between 60 and […]
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