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INSIGHTS

New research: How understanding skill relevance can drive smarter human capital development

New research from @João Souto-Maior at the @Burning Glass Institute and @Mitchell Stevens at the @Stanford Graduate School of Education introduces a new framework for understanding the Heckman Curve — one that accounts for both skill development and skill obsolescence in shaping the smartest approach to human capital investment.

Learning Throughout The Life Course: In Dialogue with David Soo

Learning Throughout The Life Course: In Dialogue with Katie Caves

Learning Throughout The Life Course: In Dialogue with Faye and Avanish Sahai

WHAT WE’RE READING

Thought-provoking articles, reports, and ideas shaping our work right now.

Borrowed expertise: Why AI’s productivity boom may not survive the generation that built it

What We're Reading

The productivity numbers from generative artificial intelligence (AI) are remarkable, and they are real. Across knowledge industries, output per worker is rising in ways that would have been hard to imagine three years ago. The natural conclusion, drawn by many, is that we are at the early stage of a long economic boom, with the gains compounding as adoption deepens.

Getting in the Front Door in the Age of AI: Policies to Help Early-Career Workers

What We're Reading

Rachel Lipson discusses how a lot of the AI policy debate uses the China trade shock as a key analogy. But if an AI disruption hits young workers the hardest initially, she worries that looking at manufacturing job loss might not be the right model...

Can America retrain workers before AI leaves them behind?

What We're Reading

Success will require investing in employees as seriously as America invests in chips

Will AI Break the University?

What We're Reading

Field Notes from a Tough Year

Higher Ed’s Big Restructuring: Adapting to the Era of the Modern Learner

What We're Reading

The challenge is not any one force in isolation. Demographic shifts are shrinking the traditional college-going population just as learners of all ages are demanding more affordable, flexible and career-connected pathways. Artificial intelligence is reshaping the skills students need and how institutions deliver value—all while sweeping federal policy changes are altering the rules of the game. This report examines the economic, regulatory, technological and demographic forces pushing the sector past mere recalibration of a familiar model.

The New Students at This Liberal Arts College Are in Their 80s

What We're Reading

Baby boomers and the silent generation are attending classes at Goucher, part of a partnership meant to offset a steep decline in enrollment