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I had the good fortune to speak recently to a leader in the world of corporate Learning & Development (L&D).

I asked him, "What is the biggest gap you see between students coming out of college and entering a corporate world in which they're going to have to continue to learn?"

What if the future of learning depends upon a simple but profound shift?

Collaboration > Competition

What if schools prevent--by design--a key to successful participation in our networked, global community and economy?

If you want to sketch the contours of the future of learning, it helps to read beyond educational publications. Here are 4 short articles that can help you sense the shape of where learning will go next...

My last official day at Malvern Prep is not until June 30th, but today I spent some time cleaning out my office ...

Jeff Selingo, former editor in chief for The Chronicle of Higher Education, has written a book that every educator and every parent of a college age student should read.  It’s called There is Life After College (2016) ...

What if the main premise--and promise--of attending college is inaccurate?

What if college isn't as ready for you as you have been led to believe? ...

Outside my office I wrote a quote from Morgan Housel that stuns me each time I read it:

“Someone with a 110 IQ but the ability to recognize when the world changes will always beat the person with a 140 IQ and rigid beliefs.” ...

The opening of this sharp piece by Reshan Richards and Stephen Valentine reveals the most important thing I have learned from teaching Social Entrepreneurship the last two years ...

We like to ask whether high school students are ready for college, but what if we flipped that around? What if we asked whether college is ready for our students? ...

As my last post reflects, Malvern Prep was lucky enough to welcome General Stanley McChrystal and New York Times “Corner Office” author Adam Bryant on April 3rd.  In the course of their conversation ...

On April 3rd, Malvern Prep was fortunate enough to welcome two distinguished guests, General Stanley McChrystal and New York Times journalist Adam Bryant ...

How should schools deal with the fact that we are living in the midst of a "phase change"? As Thomas Friedman points out in his new book Thank You For Being Late, the three biggest networks in the world ...