Future Education

Exploding college prices and a flagging global economy, combined with the derring-do of a few intrepid innovators, have created a dynamic climate for a total rethinking of an industry that has remained virtually unchanged for a hundred years. In The End of College, Kevin Carey, an education researcher and writer, draws on years of in-depth reporting and cutting-edge research to paint a vivid and surprising portrait of the future of education.

This audiobook puts a future into perspective using texts found in our history's ancient artifacts describing extraterrestrial intervention.

Focus your Spanish learning on the most frequently used verbs. Learn just the 100 verbs you need for everyday life to talk about the past, the present, and the future. One of the usual mistakes when learning a foreign language is that the student has no priorities. All the unknown verbs get the same attention. Actually, to communicate, you only need 100 verbs in any language. These verbs are the most frequently used and can be defined using an algorithm that provides the ranking. In this book, you'll find the list.

This book is meant to guide the listener on a journey of discovery through basic definitions and how they apply to the total financial picture. The author believes in the universal application of the principles therein. This is a book to be listened to and studied over and over for maximum benefit. You will certainly profit from your listenings. Managing finances is by far the most important personal activity in daily life. Everyone needs money to live and certainly wants enough to live comfortably now and into the future.

Our Common Future is a joint work produced in 1987 by a United Nations commission headed by former Norwegian Prime Minister, Gro Brundtland. Intended to respond to a growing number of environmental concerns faced by the global community, it recognized the need for long-term strategies to manage natural resources. It says we must act collaboratively to protect the environment, while at the same time stimulating economic and social development.

Miko Marsh's Stop Surviving and Live! is helping people to transform their lives. Journey with the author as she walks you through the process she used to transition from poverty to provision, mentally, emotionally, and financially. Use her process to consider how you can empower and revitalize yourself. Discover a simple but life-changing method known to many minimalists and organizers, as well as why it is important to be thorough in the chapter on scaling down.

With keen insight, Kathleen deLaski reimagines what higher education might offer and whom it should serve in Who Needs College Anymore? In the wake of declining US university enrollment and widespread crises of confidence in the value of a college degree, deLaski urges a mindset shift regarding the learning routes and credentials that best prepare students for success after high school.

“No one in this world, so far as I know, has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.” —H. L. Mencken H. L. Mencken was wrong. In this endlessly fascinating book, New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple...

A Just Future addresses the precarious future of American higher education and diversity and inclusion initiatives along with it. From a global pandemic to a national reckoning with anti-Blackness, the 2020 historical conjuncture brutally revealed the impact of structural inequalities on historically marginalized communities and galvanized college students, diversity officers, and educators on a scale not seen since the 1960s. In so doing, it exposed the unfinished business of the civil rights era and the limits of diversity and inclusion reforms.

Imagine a home where learning is a joyful exploration, your parenting is a partnership and your family thrives in a community rooted in freedom. To SEE, HEAR, and RESPECT your little ones is love. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are still worth the work towards manifesting it! This is a story of longing for freedom, letting go of old conditioning, and deeply connecting with others.

Looking to safely and ethically harvest your own human urine? This book is for you! Learn everything you need to know about how to collect, store, and drink your own pee! Discover the many benefits of human urine, including its medicinal properties and potential for creating renewable energy. With so much to offer, there's never been a better time to get into the human urine industry!

A daring and intimate exploration of how genetics complicates our ideas about blame, punishment, and moral responsibility, from acclaimed psychologist and author of The Genetic Lottery Kathryn Paige Harden. As one of the world’s leading scientists examining how our DNA shapes differences in...

What is the value of a college degree? The four-year college experience is as American as apple pie. So is the belief that higher education offers a ticket to a better life. But with student-loan debt surpassing the $1 trillion mark and unemployment of college graduates at historic highs, people are beginning to question that value. In College (Un)Bound, Jeffrey J. Selingo, editor at large of the Chronicle of Higher Education, argues that America’s higher education system is broken.

Baltimore City Public Schools is one of America’s largest and most funded school systems. Yet, historically, it is among the lowest performing. In 2024, despite a $1.7 billion budget, just 10% of students tested proficient in math. Investigative journalist Chris Papst follows the money to uncover why students continue to fail within a school system that’s failing Baltimore. Failure Factory shines a critical light on America’s public education system by exposing what’s really happening inside classrooms and behind administrative doors.

Wie schaffen wir es, in einer immer stärker digitalisierten Welt alle Menschen mitzunehmen und für die Herausforderungen der Gegenwart und der Zukunft fit zu machen? Die Expertin für digitale Bildung—Yasmin Weiß—macht deutlich, warum wir dafür lebenslanges Lernen brauchen und wie sich dieses erreichen lässt. Wie es gelingt, diese Berührungsängste abzubauen und eine lernende Gesellschaft zu werden, um wirtschaftlich zukunftsfähig zu bleiben, zeigt dieses Buch.

From FSGO x Logic: a revealing examination of digital advertising and the internet's precarious foundation In Subprime Attention Crisis, Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process, he shows us how digital advertising--the beating heart of the internet--is at...

The founder of Microsoft presents his vision for the future, in which he sees the digital technologies of the coming years changing the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate...

Focus il tuo italiano di apprendimento su più frequentemente utilizzati verbi. Scopri subito il 100 verbi di cui avete bisogno per la vita di ogni giorno per parlare del passato, il presente e il futuro. Uno dei soliti errori quando si impara una lingua straniera è che lo studente non ha alcuna priorità. Tutti i verbi sconosciuta ottenere la stessa attenzione.

The go-to resource for homeschooling through the critical high school years―and equipping your teen with what they need to move into the future with confidence, purpose, and clarity.

Are you sitting at home dreaming of a better future? Of course, everyone does that, but most don’t bother to get off their sofa and take action. But you’re different, right? You want to live an extraordinary life and be financially secure. You’ve come to the right place! A Teenager’s Guide on How to Get Rich is your one-stop guide to precisely what it says on the tin: learning how to line your bank account with cash and be comfortable for the rest of your days. After all, anyone can become rich.