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This week
Your Career Isn't a Ladder
Michael Horn on Job Moves, AI & What Progress Really Means - Michael B. Horn
Where a university is located—and how well it connects students to the opportunities around it—may b...
Career-connected pathways are built locally. But that doesn’t mean every community should have to bu...
Theory in the Age of AI: What Changes, What Doesn’t? | Christensen Institute Innovation Summit 2026
Earlier this month
On the fortunes of higher education given #AI, #academics, academic rigor, geography, finances, and ...
As artificial intelligence offers another moment for technological transformation in education, ther...
Location, location, location. For years, it seemed as if technology might make geography less impor...
The lessons from a major school redesign effort are rarely as simple as “it worked” or “it failed.” ...
Funding doesn’t just pay for education. It shapes what institutions are built to do. That’s the foc...
What would it take to move beyond the industrial core of schooling? In the latest episode of Class ...
You can redesign the school model and still get pulled back by the system underneath it. In this ep...
Higher education is under pressure: fewer students enrolling, more colleges facing financial strain,...
Good opportunity for product managers looking to work in an important space in education! Commentin...
What counts as learning shapes what schools, colleges, and training providers are able to build. Th...
Higher ed is facing a growing set of pressures that can’t be explained away as temporary headwinds. ...
Even as much of #highered is struggling, some institutions are expanding—more students, more faculty...
Jeff Selingo and I recently took Future U. Podcast U live to Google’s Higher Education Leader Summit...
September 2026
Is Alpha School actually disruptive? Probably not—at least not in the way Clayton Christensen defin...
The biggest challenge with AI in higher education may be less about the technology than about bringi...
States across the country are trying to build stronger education-to-career systems. But before they ...
I was recently featured on The National Desk in a story examining the state of K–12 education in Ame...