The Folly of Free College?
Handling America’s mountain of student debt was a central theme of the 2020 U.S. election campaign. President...
The Decline, Fall and Rebirth of the American...
Forty years ago, a college education was the best investment any American could make in his or her future. A BA or...
Degree Inflation Undermines U.S....
Increasingly a baccalaureate degree has become a requirement for more and more jobs, regardless of whether anything...
The Fraud and Folly of American Public Education
Nowhere has the administrative state become more burdensome, perverse and ossified than in the realm of public...
The Growing Disconnect Between Education and...
published on: Sep 15, 2018
Over the past one hundred years, no investment has more reliably produced a great ROI than a college education. Furthermore, throughout the 20th...
Machine Learning Impacts the 21st Century...
published on: Feb 15, 2018
Most experts argue that machine-learning will seriously impact jobs, productivity, and our quality of life over the next few decades. However, there...
Science in Crisis
published on: Nov 15, 2017
Public policy, technology, and popular culture all assume that science is the final arbiter of truth and efficacy. But few consumers, investors,...
School Choice is Coming
published on: Oct 15, 2017
The public school monopoly may soon be history! Then, all parents can decide where and how their children will be educated. Why is this happening...
Real Education for the Real Economy
published on: Jul 30, 2017
For decades, the only Americans well served by the enormous education industry have been those with the aptitude and ambition to enter conceptual...
The Lawyer Bubble
published on: Sep 15, 2016
While graduates of the top law schools still get solid offers and partners with top law firms still generate big incomes, things look relatively...
How Deep Learning Will Change Our World
published on: Apr 11, 2016
As we explained in Ride the Wave, merging the power of cloud-based artificial intelligence with ubiquitous AI-enabled mobile apps will unleash a...
Post-Secondary Education for the New Era
published on: Aug 15, 2015
American post-secondary education consumes a vast amount of economic resources, fails to equip people to fully exploit current and emerging economic...
The College Gender Paradox
published on: Jun 23, 2015
Consider the facts: More people are going to college, yet we hear of a widespread "skills gap." We tout education as the route to prosperity and...
Coming to Terms with the College Bubble
published on: Feb 17, 2015
Compared to the bubbles facing China's policymakers and managers that we'll discuss in the next trend, the U.S. college bubble seems manageable. Yet...
Rethinking the K–12 Education Crisis
published on: Dec 21, 2014
To seize the opportunities inherent in the next phase of the Digital Techno-Economic Revolution, the United States must address its growing "skills...
The Tragedy of "College for Everybody"
published on: Jul 14, 2014
A bachelor's degree has been sold as a "must-have" for all Americans. Despite the high cost, the evidence clearly shows that those who graduate with...
Disruptive Innovation Hits the University
published on: Jan 15, 2014
The Trends editors have long forecast that the 19th-century business models of education would be disrupted by technology, causing the broad collapse...
The Automation of American Jobs
published on: Nov 7, 2013
Since the first Industrial Revolution kicked off in 1771, the specter of the machine as a destroyer of jobs has haunted workers. For over 240...
Getting Beyond the Student Loan Crisis
published on: Jul 16, 2013
Today, outstanding U.S. student loan debt is in excess of $1 trillion, and delinquency rates are rising. What's really behind this crisis? Where is...
The Coming Revolution in Higher Education
published on: Jan 4, 2013
American education from kindergarten through college is desperately in need of fundamental reengineering. As we've explained in previous issues, it...
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