Ubiquity U: The Rise of Disruptive Learning
JANUARY 31, 2013 by MARK FRAZIER
Editor’s Note: This article is just one way FEE is celebrating National School Choice Week, January 27–February 2. Even if policy change comes slowly, we want to challenge readers to look for creative ways to circumvent bloated, sclerotic systems in primary, secondary, and higher education.
Tax-funded systems of education face the end of an era. Soaring tuition costs and student loan burdens are crushing household budgets. Students steeped in social networks and entertainment-rich media skip or tune out in class. In an era of torrential change, moreover, what students do retain—perhaps 20 to 30 percent—is likely to be outdated within a year or two of graduation.
Traditionally, tax-funded schools have held out the prospect that stable careers await those who endure thousands of days of instructor-led classes. Yet this prospect too is fading. We can see glimmers of this future in the gales of creative destruction worldwide. Forces transforming the labor markets of developed economies include:
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