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Entrepreneuring Is the Best Natural Lab for Learning
Bread, Circuses and Education
The Path Not Taken: The 50 Most Economically Disastrous College Majors
Degrees of deception: How America’s universities became debt factories
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Math that Matters: The Case for Probability over Polynomials
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The Great Disengagement: America’s students have checked out
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The Boldest Education Experiment in 20 Years Was Just the Beginning
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Ghost nonprofits and the manufacturing of virtue
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Entrepreneurship Is Still Where Science Was in 1600
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The Student-Teacher Ratio Scam
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Skin in the game: Fixing higher education’s student debt problem
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Education in a Post Text World
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Money lessons without money: The financial literacy fallacy
Teaching kids financial literacy without real money is like teaching swimming with PowerPoint slides. And we all know how that ends.
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Let the Kids Cheat
Your kid didn’t write their essay last night. ChatGPT did.
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The Proof Economy
Harvard’s own dean of undergraduate education recently made a startling admission in the New York Times: “Students feel the need to distinguish themselves outside the classroom because they are essentially indistinguishable inside the classroom.“
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Skin in the game: Fixing higher education’s student debt problem
Imagine a drug company selling a pill that promises to make you smarter and more capable. It costs $200,000, requires four years of regular doses, and is usually bought with borrowed money.
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