Economics Education White Paper 
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
A group of professors at Massachusetts Institute of Technology dropped a provocative white paper in September that proposed a new kind of college that would address some of the growing public skepticism of higher education. This week, they took the next step toward bringing their vision from idea to reality.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 7, 2019
As the white paper “ Taking Back Kindergarten: Rethinking Rigor for Young Learners ” discusses, a rigorous approach to kindergarten does not have to be at odds with developmentally appropriate education. The World Economic Forum reports that while some fields are growing and others are not, nearly all are changing.
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Digital Promise
JANUARY 24, 2017
Digital Promise gathered developers, researchers, educators, and thought leaders from the educator professional development field on January 9-10 in Redwood City, California, for The Future of Educator Micro-credentials Summit. Investigate through research and supporting guiding questions to prepare solutions.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 19, 2020
Given current circumstances, Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University, has decided to teach his fall course, “Economic History of Europe,” for a salary of $1. Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University and national expert on higher education finances, began teaching at O.U.
Digital Promise
AUGUST 29, 2017
According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 36 million adults in this country read at or below a third grade level — a staggering statistic. The adult education market is one that has been ripe for technological innovation for some time.
ED Surge
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Thiel had long been looking for a way to blow up higher education. Thiel was trying to change the public conversation about higher education, and at the time, 13 years ago, even practices like gap years were pretty uncommon. In fact, these days skepticism of higher education is rising. He was 19 years old at the time.
ED Surge
DECEMBER 19, 2023
But he’s not done trying to bring big changes to higher education. But there's this new distance education thing, and if you want to keep your preferred provider status, you have to start offering that. And at their height, these for-profits educated 12 percent of all American college students. But nature abhors a vacuum.
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