Welcome to the Future of Education: Charlottesville, a show where we consider what our education system should look like in 20 years.   I’m your host Lee Elberson and I ask you to join me on a journey to the future as experts from the Charlottesville Community explore our education system through a variety of different lenses.  These topics are specific to Charlottesville but likely have wide-reaching implications.

Intro Music: Yoffee, J. (2020). Will To Live [Single]

Topics Covered:

Historical review of education

1. Compared to 20 years ago, what strides have been made in our education system?


2. What are some of the unique challenges that large universities have faced in the last 20 years?


3. Given that 1.3% of tuition($7.4B/604B) is awarded as scholarships, what am I missing that I think it should be 20%?


4. How has that affected equity in our university system?


5. How does college ranking determine college decision?


6. US News & World Reports College Rankings?


7. Do we associate success with financial success?  Is fulfillment a better term?
   
   The CEO of ACT (Janet Godwin) stated that standardized test outcomes are just a symptom of systemic inequality. Is there truth to that statement?


8. Are students with resources always going to perform better?

Future thinking

1. What do we want our education system to look like in 20 years?


2. What should college recruitment look like in 20 years?


3. What attributes does the class of 2041 have that the class of 2021 does not?


4. In considering changes to our education system, do we take a bottom-up (birth-5 first) or top-down (college first) approach?

What can we do NOW to shape our education system?

1. How would focus on project-based learning help career trajectory?


2. Jobs ask for resumes, Colleges ask for test scores, and school systems depend on transcripts.   Are we too dependent on test scores?


3. What is the balance between project-based learning and rigid testing?


4. What can we do to better collaborate among educational institutions?