Read Dr. Boston’s posts offering his insights into higher education, K-12 education, and technology.
Author’s Note and Rights Reservation This essay is adapted from a work-in-progress book project tentatively titled The Community Premium: How Private Colleges Can Become Indispensable in the Age of AI.…
What EdTech Investors Look for in Education Startups Education technology continues to attract entrepreneurs who believe that schools, colleges, employers, and learners need better tools. They are usually correct. The…
I have been a college affordability advocate for decades. When I was an undergraduate at Duke in the 1970s, I graduated with only $2,100 in student loan debt thanks to…
I’ve been following the developments in generative AI since ChatGPT was released in November 2022. At first, many of the higher education conversations that I read or heard were focused…
Jeff Selingo wrote Dream School for families. College leaders, especially those at tuition-dependent, four-year residential undergraduate institutions, should read it as market research. Across the book, a consistent message emerges:…
My obsessive read this month has been The Signal Solution: How Smart Colleges Stop Chasing Applications and Start Converting Students by Geoff Baird and Teege Mettille. It’s a work of…
The recent proliferation of articles regarding Congress’s cap on federal student loans, following the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill, has focused primarily on the impact on graduate students…
When I was in sixth grade, I received an academic scholarship to an independent school in Maryland. It changed the direction of my life. My experiences at that private school…
The first wave of generative AI changed how people write, search, summarize, code, and brainstorm. Since the first version of ChatGPT was opened to the public, I’ve written frequently about…
