A little more than three years ago the Grand Rapids Public Museum hosted Outsmarting the Robots: Redesigning education from the classroom to the halls of Lansing. The conference was organized
This post was first published in July 2017. As America confronts the reality of structural racism, it is clear we need to put on the
This is our third recent post on reforming capitalism so that it works for all. The first featured the writings of hedge fund billionaire Ray
Readers of our latest report know that we very much agree with Robert Putnam’s framing, in his book Our Kids, of the basic economic division in
British Prime Minister David Cameron’s Life Chances speech which we highlighted in our last post includes recommendations on education. Cameron, once again, lays out an
As you know we believe that successful careers going forward are going to look far more like rock climbing than ladder climbing. The notion of
I support President Obama’s proposal to make community college tuition free for those students who stay on track academically. Expanding education opportunity and outcomes is
Interesting article from Bloomberg Businessweek on the skills employers hire for. The magazine polled more than 1,300 corporate recruiters of business school graduates on what
As I have written previously we need an education system that prepares students for the economy they will live in, not the economy that their
The evidence keeps growing that economic growth is increasingly going to capital not labor. And that unless that changes most Americans are facing a declining
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