Mention "hackathon" and the image that might come to mind is of a bunch of computer geeks competing to devise some brilliant yet obscure programming solution.

There's some truth to that, but the hackathon has come a long way from...

Nearly 3,000 four-year colleges and universities enroll students in America. Only about 25 of them have an admittance rate of 10% or less, which means that we're effectively letting the 1% dominate the conversation around higher education - a...

The past couple years have shown that learning in a fully remote environment leaves a lot to be desired compared with in-person learning. Among school-age students, for instance, remote learning has been associated with lower test scores and has...

In recent years, micro-credentials have gained popularity as a way for students and recent graduates to enhance their skills in specific areas and ready themselves for the job market. At the same time, an increasing number of companies are embrac...

After years of targeting and extorting high-value corporate targets, ransomware attackers have turned to more vulnerable prey - school districts. With less funding, less-than-mature cybersecurity defenses and limited (or even nonexistent) contr...

CEOs must feel like remaking their workforces is a full-time job. Recent research shows that 60% of employers said new graduates were not adequately prepared for the workforce, while other research warns that 58% of workers will need new skills t...

When companies as widely recognized and well established as Boeing, Walmart, and IBM start moving in a similar direction on something, it's safe to say the idea has legs.

In this case, companies are looking towards skills-based hiri...

If voting with your feet is a form of protest, K-12 schools need to start paying attention to the steady drumbeat of footsteps. Across the country, schools are experiencing some of the biggest enrollment drops ever in what amounts to a crisis of...

With a nationwide shortage of tens of thousands of teachers, school districts are scrambling to find new ways to recruit and retain talent. But there's one underutilized solution: federal stimulus money from the national COVID crisis.

High school students today face the prospect of graduating into a world that immediately weighs them down with student debt and out-of-control product prices. Fortunately, there's a growing trend in American secondary education that can help them...

If you don't understand climate change, you're going to stand out in the business world. And not in a good way. Climate change is affecting everything from running an office, to managing supply chains, to investing. If you want to contribute to c...

On a recent visit to a school district, I was startled to find a procurement office with folding tables stacked with hundreds of paper purchasing orders that needed to be manually reviewed and approved.

What major industry still opera...

Conventional wisdom says retirement should be a time of rest and relaxation. Yet there's a reason so many seniors mentally regress quickly after they stop working. If we're not mentally active, our brains tend to atrophy, inviting a greater c...

I recently had to install a new printer, and my first thought was to read the manual. My teenage son, of a generation born with phones in their hands, turned to YouTube instead. Guess who ended up installing that printer?

There's a...

High school students and their parents devote an extraordinary amount of time and energy to the college search process. But then an odd thing happens once a student is accepted. Families tend to exhale - "All done!" - and mostly put college o...

The Great Resignation has boosted employee training and development programs from "nice to have" to "critical." Training has been christened the "new corporate profit center" by Forbes for its potential to improve emplo...

Public schools around the country could see some of the most exciting educational innovations in decades - if districts have the courage to quickly deploy a federal windfall to schools' best advantage.

It's a big if.

The uproar around teaching critical race theory (CRT) in K-12 schools is really a fight against a straw man. In reality, CRT - the academic framework that views racism as a systemic part of U.S. society - has barely been taught in our middle...

Schools are being offered a once-in-a-lifetime windfall of federal money to recover from the pandemic, but weak management and labor shortages mean billions may go unclaimed and unspent.

In 2020 and 2021, Congress passed a series of s...

College is not easy for anyone, but the challenges faced by many tribal students are tougher than most.

After 15 years of working on higher education with Native Americans, American Indians, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians, I rema...