Future of Education

Selections made by top experts for an audience new to this topic

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Why does it matter?

Perhaps there no other topic more essential to the success of individuals, organizations and societies than the development of human capital. On this page we provide resources which provide insights towards the future of education.

Entry points

Re-inventing Education for the Digital Age

Why Technology Can't Fix Education

Selected articles and texts

Interview

10 min

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

The future of learning and teaching: Big changes ahead for education

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology professor Tricia McLaughlin identifies four important ways that education will change in the coming years, including a reevaluation of the importance of testing and a greater emphasis on customization to the needs of an individual learner.

Article

10 min

Forbes

The 2 Biggest Future Trends In Education

In addition to analyzing the trends present in education, author Bernard Marr presents a high school in Finland that embodies the future of education as a model for others to follow.

Article

5 min

Harvard Graduate School of Education

What the Future of Education Looks Like from Here

In the wake of the pandemic, the Harvard Graduate School of Education convened a discussion focusing on how COVID has affected education in a variety of different ways.

Article

25 min

NPR

The Future Of Learning? Well, It's Personal

NPR’s All Things Considered reports on the rise of personalized learning, speaking with education researchers, educators, ed-tech pioneers, parents, and children to get a variety of perspectives on this approach.

Paper

30 min

Deloitte

The Future of Higher Education

A broad overview of the sweeping trends present in higher education, focusing especially on student experience and technological infrastructure.

Report

45 min

World Economic Forum

Schools of the Future Report

This whitepaper from the World Economic Forum defines the features that will be present in schools that successfully adapt to a changing education world and then goes on to highlight schools around the world that exemplify these qualities.

Paper

30 min

OECD

The Future of Education and Skills

This position paper from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development provides a vision of the next 10 years of education.

Report

50 pages

World Bank

Ending Learning Poverty: What will it take?

Report gives an overview of current global status of learning poverty and how to reduce this measure.

Deep dive: long form content to further your understanding

Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms

In order to understand where education is going in the future, it is vital to understand the history of American education. This book, by historian Diane Ravitch, details the history of American school reforms - and why they have so often failed.

Education philosopher Kieran Egan presents a ‘radical rethinking of the whole education process,’ including a hypothetical narrative of education reforms over the next 50 years.

The Future of Education: Reimagining Our Schools from the Ground Up

Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom

Analysis of the role of race in the American classroom. The pandemic has only exacerbated existing racial inequities in education, and an understanding of why those inequities persist is vital to fixing American education.

This book provides a sociological look at education research and asks the question ‘what do we want our children to be learning?’

Bringing Knowledge Back In

COVID and Education: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Future of Learning

The Future of Education | Mike Howells

This lecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Education presents an analysis of how the pandemic has affected learning across the world.

This TEDTalk from Pearson executive Mike Howells emphasizes a stronger focus on lifelong learning and revolutionizing the way we think about education.