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Forget STEM, The Future Ready Skills Curriculum is ECPM

Sunday, 22 February 2026 by
Articles and perspectives considering the end of STEM education, given the rise of AI, have been filling my inbox lately. And in fairness and to be clear, STEM professionals are pointing, “of course not, Math will always be a critical skill, and Science is clearly more than an LLM doing research,” no indeed, STEM isn’t
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Education in Marketing and Entrepreneurship

Thursday, 17 October 2019 by
Two VERY different things. Love this question, I mentor in our local High School program and with University incubators and accelerators. Our schools can do better, if we help them do so. Peter Drucker (economist notable in the 70s and 80s), “Only two things create value in business – Marketing and Innovation; and Marketing is the
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Is Education Simply Broken?

Wednesday, 25 September 2013 by
Breaking Education
“Remember everything we learned last class? Well that’s actually not true and we are going to learn something radically different and (slightly) more correct this class,” said every teach you ever had. I’ve been on a tirade about education lately. With 3 kids in the house, working their way through elementary school, we’re dealing with
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Changing Education

Tuesday, 23 October 2012 by
Jeff Selingo
Over the past few weeks, I’ve had the pleasure of learning from Editor at Large ofThe Chronicle of Higher Education and Author of College (Un)Bound, Jeff Selingo. He has spent the past 15 years immersed in higher education reporting and has been a featured speaker before dozens of national higher-education groups and appears regularly on NPR, PBS, ABC,
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