Education

Retooling American Education

How to Move Beyond College-for-All

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Failing on Purpose

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A proposal for funding employer-led noncollege pathways instead of higher education failure

Patterns of change in the U.S. labor market, 2000–2019

The college-for-all model fails most Americans in favor of a “Fortunate Fifth” who proceed smoothly from high school to college to career.

FINANCIAL TIMES—American Compass’s Oren Cass makes the case against forgiving billions of dollars of student debt and for rethinking our approach to higher education.

THE NEW YORK TIMES—In a Dealbook feature collecting ideas from a wide variety of leaders on how to improve the country, American Compass’s Oren Cass argues for shifting our focus away from college and toward providing strong, non-college career pathways.

COVID-19 sent a shock wave through an already changing U.S. job market, provoking “a great reassessment of work in America.” This broad rethinking of work and human...

A college degree has long been the key that unlocks success in America—the good job, the high salary, the professional networks. But many...

The CARES Act, intended to address the economic devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, offers especially generous tax treatment for charitable contributions in...

In a recent post, Chris Arnade compared the American education system to strip mining, an analogy that Patrick Deneen uses in his book...

During his growing up years, Mark, an underemployed contract laborer in his 30s, often heard his mother describe their town as “the devil’s...

I get criticized for not talking about policy enough, so here we go: No Child Left Behind is a disaster, the spearhead of...