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Publications

The Forge Journal

EDUCATION

Education in 2040. Not 1940.

Our schools today look strikingly similar to those of 1940 because we’ve never stopped to ask the most important question: What is the actual goal of education?

6 min read
Education in 2040. Not 1940.
ENTREPRENEURING

Entrepreneuring Is the Best Natural Lab for Learning

Entrepreneuring Is the Best Natural Lab for Learning
7 min read
EDUCATION

Bread, Circuses and Education

Bread, Circuses and Education
6 min read
COLLEGE

The Path Not Taken: The 50 Most Economically Disastrous College Majors

The Path Not Taken: The 50 Most Economically Disastrous College Majors
2 min read
COLLEGE

Degrees of deception: How America’s universities became debt factories

Degrees of deception: How America’s universities became debt factories
4 min read
EDUCATION

The Great Disengagement: America’s students have checked out

The Great Disengagement: America’s students have checked out
4 min read
GRADES

Grade inflation: Yes, your kid’s grades are bullshit

Grade inflation: Yes, your kid’s grades are bullshit
5 min read
EDUCATION

Fine Isn't the Goal

Fine Isn't the Goal
4 min read
EDUCATION

The Endless Ladder

The Endless Ladder
5 min read

LATEST IN EDUCATION

School Turned Your Brain Into a Warehouse. It Should Be a Factory.
EDUCATION

School Turned Your Brain Into a Warehouse. It Should Be a Factory.

5 min read
Want Real Learning? Kill Grades.
LEARNING

Want Real Learning? Kill Grades.

5 min read
The Boldest Education Experiment in 20 Years Was Just the Beginning
EDUCATION

The Boldest Education Experiment in 20 Years Was Just the Beginning

4 min read
Ghost nonprofits and the manufacturing of virtue
EXTRACURRICULARS

Ghost nonprofits and the manufacturing of virtue

4 min read
Entrepreneurship Is Still Where Science Was in 1600
ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Entrepreneurship Is Still Where Science Was in 1600

7 min read
The Student-Teacher Ratio Scam
TEACHERS

The Student-Teacher Ratio Scam

3 min read
Skin in the game: Fixing higher education’s student debt problem
COLLEGE

Skin in the game: Fixing higher education’s student debt problem

6 min read
Education in a Post Text World
AI

Education in a Post Text World

5 min read
GRANTS

Announcing the Forge Fellowship: Fueling the young & ambitious

As we develop Forge Prep, we’ve come across many young entrepreneurs in middle and high school who are already formidable entrepreneurs. They’re building, selling, learning, and growing.

3 min read
Announcing the Forge Fellowship: Fueling the young & ambitious

MOST POPULAR ARTICLES

Money lessons without money: The financial literacy fallacy
FINACIAL LITERACY

Money lessons without money: The financial literacy fallacy

Teaching kids financial literacy without real money is like teaching swimming with PowerPoint slides. And we all know how that ends.

7 min read
Let the Kids Cheat
AI

Let the Kids Cheat

Your kid didn’t write their essay last night. ChatGPT did.

5 min read
The Proof Economy
BUSINESS

The Proof Economy

Harvard’s own dean of undergraduate education recently made a startling admission in the New York Times: “Students feel the need to distinguish themselves outside the classroom because they are essentially indistinguishable inside the classroom.“

5 min read
Skin in the game: Fixing higher education’s student debt problem
COLLEGE

Skin in the game: Fixing higher education’s student debt problem

Imagine a drug company selling a pill that promises to make you smarter and more capable. It costs $200,000, requires four years of regular doses, and is usually bought with borrowed money.

5 min read
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