NEWS AND VIEWS

Explore insights, conversations and resources from the doers and thinkers
who are bringing a learning society into existence.

INSIGHTS

Learning Throughout The Life Course: In Dialogue with Faye and Avanish Sahai

Faye Sahai is a global healthcare and technology advisor, investor, founder, and executive with over 30 years of experience. Avanish Sahai is a retired technology executive. His career at the intersection of technology and enterprise gave him a distinct lens on systemic change — one he now applies to philanthropy, focusing on grants that strengthen the infrastructure of organizations working on education, poverty alleviation, and healthcare access. Together, Faye and Avanish are co-founders of the Sahai Family Foundation, where they lead a grant-making practice rooted in rigor, empathy, and long-term impact. Their focus on systems thinking reflects the Learning Society’s broader mission of building new systems for human capital development.

Scaling Workforce Development to Meet the AI Moment: What You Need To Know

Learning Throughout The Life Course: In Dialogue with Anne Trumbore

Catalyzing Early-Career Potential in the AI Era: Convening Summary

WHAT WE’RE READING

Thought-provoking articles, reports, and ideas shaping our work right now.

Failure to Measure Learning Is Hurting Higher Education

What We're Reading

The public doubts the value of what colleges are providing. That could change if institutions proved that students actually develop the capabilities and skills we promise them.

Now That Workforce Pell Is Here, Colleges Must Quash These Three Myths About Stackable Credentials

What We're Reading

Short-term credentials are booming in part because many promise an immediate payoff. The Workforce Pell program that launched this month introduces something else for learners and workers to get excited about: Eligible short-term programs must stack toward a degree.

Borrowed expertise: Why AI’s productivity boom may not survive the generation that built it

What We're Reading

The productivity numbers from generative artificial intelligence (AI) are remarkable, and they are real. Across knowledge industries, output per worker is rising in ways that would have been hard to imagine three years ago. The natural conclusion, drawn by many, is that we are at the early stage of a long economic boom, with the gains compounding as adoption deepens.

Getting in the Front Door in the Age of AI: Policies to Help Early-Career Workers

What We're Reading

Rachel Lipson discusses how a lot of the AI policy debate uses the China trade shock as a key analogy. But if an AI disruption hits young workers the hardest initially, she worries that looking at manufacturing job loss might not be the right model...