Is Education’s Past Its 2050 Prologue?1
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I ask you to consider the future of education, especially of postsecondary education. If you choose to extrapolate from familiar paragons of academic excellence, you may gloss over a challenging policy conundrum. Progressive leaders around the world are asking for help from education leaders. Their policy goal is to scale up, often to unprecedented levels, the intellectual-capital pool of postsecondary credentialed adults. They also want the scaling process to address pressing workforce and economic development needs that often depend on expertise in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) – or their applications.
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