Surveying higher education across the country, a number of trends have emerged that point to both a contemporary crisis and a coming, radical transformation. Very soon, our institutions of higher education are going to look very different.
K-12 Education
Alpha School isn’t an ‘AI story.’ It’s a structural indictment—and employers/HR should pay attention
Alpha School’s “AI education shakeup” is really a warning to employers: the fastest way to outperform isn’t smarter tech—it’s removing the soul-crushing compliance load that keeps humans from owning the mission. Alpha School was founded in 2014, and it’s recently become a national talking point because its students do core academics in roughly two hours...
March 18, 2026