The Future of Work: Assessing Skills Essential for Success

The Future of Work: Assessing Skills Essential for Success

By Doris Zahner, Ph.D. | December 10, 2021 | Getting Smart Our ever-growing technological world is rapidly changing the nature of work and the skills required to be successful. Workforce success is becoming less dependent on having content knowledge and more dependent...
Picking the Degrees and Majors of the Future

Picking the Degrees and Majors of the Future

By Ilana Kowarski | December 7, 2021 | U.S. News & World Report Experts say an interdisciplinary education provides the most reliable preparation for a career in a changing world. Given the rapid pace of economic change and technological innovation, some wonder...
The Missing 4th R

The Missing 4th R

By Steven Mintz | December 14, 2020 | INSIDE HIGHER ED Rigor is conspicuously absent from the current discourse on educational innovation. Rigor is a concept that goes in and out of fashion, peaking, most recently, in the 1990s and early 2000s, and then fading away....
Pandemic Opportunity: Rethink Education Accountability

Pandemic Opportunity: Rethink Education Accountability

By Tom Vander Ark | Oct 14, 2020 | Forbes Did you ever have a drill sergeant or boss who tried to motivate you to improve by yelling? It doesn’t work very well. It produces fear rather than inspiration, compliance rather than creativity. For the last 25 years, America...