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A school year unlike any other is starting for students and educators across the United States. The pandemic and social unrest around racism make it a challenging time for students, teachers, and administrators, but it’s also a period of opportunity.
Public education is an investment in America’s future, and schools profoundly influence how students understand themselves, their potential, and the country they will collectively create. For over 35 years, political consensus held that reading and math test scores were a good-enough proxy for school quality and student success. But two years of pandemic disruptions — comb...
Spend an hour with two of America’s best teachers, exploring the ups and downs of their experiences on the front lines of American education. What brought them to the classroom—and why did they stay? What do they wish parents and policymakers understood better about the life of a teacher? What’s changed the most about their jobs in the last few years? How do they focus on...
The world faces many challenges—from climate change to political instability to widening inequality—that transcend borders and impact us all. If today’s young people are to be equipped with the imagination and skillsets to tackle these growing threats, educational excellence is key. How do we build successful education systems at scale and in every community? And what expe...
Computer systems don’t anticipate all the types of people who might use them. What are the innocuous, and more problematic, consequences of this?
With many students returning to school from the comfort of their living rooms, educators are using this unique period to address long-standing problems of equity.
Digital skills open doors to jobs in tech, media, and across all industries. Connecting diverse students and workers with the education and training needed for the 92% of today’s jobs that require digital skills creates a pipeline of talent, critical to driving economic opportunity and mobility.
We are thrilled to announce that Vice President Kamala Harris will speak at Aspen Ideas: Climate in Miami Beach. On March 8 – International Women’s Day – the Vice President will participate in a conversation with iconic singer and songwriter Gloria Estefan. They will discuss the Biden-Harris Administration’s approach to climate change as a priority issue, including the pot...
How is online learning changing classroooms?
What does it mean to engage, upskill, and empower the workforce while at the same time ensuring equitable access and participation? Two remarkable young entrepreneurs talk with Tracy Palandjian about the opportunities for tech platforms to deliver critical skills-based education as well as avenues for mentoring, coaching, and creating the kinds of networking connections th...
What is trust? “A firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something.” (We googled it). How much, not to mention who, we should trust is more complex now, given the technological tools we have at our disposal and the crafty creatives who might push the world’s next great product, or the next fake story, or — far worse — the hackers who can...
When children see themselves and their communities mirrored in school curriculum, they learn better. But traditional curriculum situates people of the African Diaspora in a minimally positive — and many times negative — light, which has led to generations of Black students feeling disengaged.
Two-thirds of American workers do not have a four-year college degree. In an increasingly tech-driven economy, how can we ensure that a lack of higher education isn’t a roadblock for this huge part of the population and, likewise, that talent shortages aren’t barriers to business and economic growth? What are the most innovative ways to upskill, reskill, or next-skill work...
How can we make every teacher a star teacher?
What were the ideals of the framers, and what can they teach us about modern American democracy?
The Aspen Institute Festival Fellows are a diverse group of global leaders who are selected for their work, accomplishments, and ability to transform ideas into action.
Americans speak with many voices, and nobody hears more of those voices than the people they elect to represent them and to fulfill the various tasks of governing. A member of Houston City Council, an eight-year mayor of a diverse California community, an elected public-service regulator from a few miles south of the Canadian border, and a state attorney general from a hig...
The quest for profits, commitments to social impact, and consumer preference are driving unprecedented change in healthcare as investors pour in money, start-ups and big tech upend traditional delivery models, and patients turn to apps to access care in new ways. We are thinking differently about what supports health, redirecting resources into social determinants like edu...