RETHINK LEARNING

Schools and workplaces are built on an outdated idea: that education primarily happens in the first 25 years of life. But we now live and work longer and can anticipate changing jobs and careers many times. To ensure that our longer lives are prosperous, healthy, and enjoyable,

WE’RE BUILDING A FUTURE IN WHICH EVERYONE CAN LEARN AND GROW THROUGHOUT THEIR LIVES;

where all kinds of learning count, not just college degrees; and where all who benefit from a skilled and resilient workforce invest in sustaining it.

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Why Professors Fear the Future

Academic life has barely changed in 40 years. Why? The faculty likes it that way.

Are You Building Something?

An interview with Marshall Ganz on what the social sector gets wrong about power and structural change

Who is responsible for Americans’ lifelong employability?

Mitchell Stevens recently spoke with Julian Alssid and Kaitlin LeMoine about the future of work and learning for the Work Forces podcast. It's a great listen around the need to transition from a schooled society that centers early-life classroom experiences and academic credentials, to a learning society that recognizes human talent grows everywhere across the entire arc of lengthening lives.

Why ’65’ Isn’t the Magic Number for Retirement Anymore

The old system is broken. People are living much longer and they need—and want—to work later in life to make the numbers add up. Besides, you can only spend so much time on the golf course.

When A.I. Took My Job, I Bought a Chain Saw

Brian Groh reflects on how artificial intelligence has begun to erode his work as a copywriter. Turning to a chatbot for career advice, he receives an unexpected and unsettling suggestion.

A 1 Percent Solution to the Looming A.I. Job Apocalypse

The threat of artificial intelligence doesn’t only present a job crisis. It creates an education challenge. The problem isn’t that people can’t work. It’s that we haven’t built systems to help them continue learning and connect them to new opportunities as the world changes rapidly.

New Approaches to Characterize Industries: AI as a Framework and a Use Case

Recent AEI research unites economists, data scientists and policy experts to solve a critical problem: measuring AI's true impact on jobs and skills. With traditional systems failing to track generative AI's rapid spread, this compendium presents innovative strategies — including talent-flow models and new skill frameworks — to inform smarter workforce and economic policy.

How should we talk about workforce investment? With Rachel Lipson.

SCL Futures Fellow (2024-2025) and Resident Scholar at the Aspen Economic Strategy Group Rachel Lipson argues that workforce development should be reframed from an individualized anti-poverty social policy into a public good similar to R&D investment, prioritizing critical industries and job quality to benefit the entire economy rather than targeting specific disadvantaged populations.

How to Save theAmerican Experiment

To support human prosperity in the next decade and beyond, we need bold institutional experiments. In this op-ed, Yale Law School professor John Fabian Witt argues that America can overcome its current democratic crisis by learning from the 1920s, when civil society institutions and philanthropy responded to eerily similar conditions as today with transformative new models of economic organization like industrial unions and civil rights movements that ultimately led to the New Deal and civil rights era.