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The College Question provides answers on all things college: what it costs and why, how financial aid works, where majors lead and more. Hosted by Dan Currell, former U.S. Department of Education official and regular contributor to the New York Times. thecollegequestion.substack.com
Dan Currell hosts The College Question Podcast, a education show with 30 episodes published.
In Part 1 of the Gustavus Keynote, Knowledge and Strength, I considered the college motto, e caelo nobis vires, roughly “from heaven come our strengths.” In Part 2, I talk about the conditions necessary for building stre
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Last week I delivered the keynote at a staff retreat at Gustavus Adolphus College, where my wife and I met in the 1990s and I am on the board. I’ll split it up into a few pieces. Today, I confess to a crime and consider
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It takes a lot of work to get kids to the point where college is even possible. Moms have a certain tendency to do that work. This was our Christmas letter in 2009, describing what - if you read between the lines - was a
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AI is a formidable automation and labor-saving tool, so the going assumption is that it will wipe out millions of knowledge workers’ jobs. Automation always kills jobs because it changes the nature of work, but it doesn’
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Let me tell you about a children’s board book called Robbie the Robot Learns to Read. Robbie the robot wants to read, so he visits a teacher named Ms. Snead, a bespectacled turtle who insists that “rules are what make la
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As we assess how AI works, we get a better sense of how our own brains work. To be clear, even the people who create AI don’t quite know how it works, and nobody knows how our brains work.* Today, I want to look into wha
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Consider a profession your kid might aspire to: being a doctor. A patient walks into a clinic. She is tired, anxious, and has a list of symptoms. The doctor has fifteen minutes. Over those fifteen minutes the doctor will
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The question many parents are asking right now is more fundamental than how to get into college or how to pay for it. It’s whether the career their child is considering will exist in four years. It’s a fair question. It’
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A friend’s son is choosing between three colleges. They’re all of the same general type, but the differences still matter. It’s not about distance or money or sports or the size of the school. It’s really about the schoo
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Atul Dighe has been a colleague and friend for two decades, and he’s as thoughtful as anyone I know on questions of education, career, and personal formation. Atul nudged me to pursue The College Question, and without th
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Colleges hate the word "negotiate” - but it’s what we’re doing. Dan Currell and Mark Salisbury of TuitionFit discuss strategies for improving financial aid offers and understanding college pricing. Colleges need to attra
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Happy Friday! We’ve made it to the last entry in Ten Things We Get Wrong About College: [Handsome Prince] should go to college in [country], where it’s free! (It’s not, which is one of the reasons nobody does this.) As A
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We’re almost to the end of Ten Things We Get Wrong About College! Here’s #2 in our countdown … “Ivy League graduates make the big bucks!” (Not usually - let’s look more closely.) This post will start with economics and e
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Yesterday’s post, “Sports Scholarships Are Fake,” was really about the college economic model. Tuition pricing is so distorted that many scholarship athletes pay just as much as other students do - and sometimes more. Mo
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Happy St. Paddy’s Day! We’re continuing Ten Things We Get Wrong About College with #4: “Well, I guess a sports scholarship is the ticket.” (They’re mostly fake.) The College Question is a reader-supported publication. To
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Happy Monday! A housekeeping note: through the end of Ten Things We Get Wrong About College I’ll keep all posts free for everyone, after which about half of TCQ’s posts will be for paid subscribers, and the other half op
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Below is a passage from my NYT Opinion cutting room floor. I was trying to explain why top students stopped submitting SAT scores even though they all took the test, and it seemed to me that the system had morphed into o
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It’s Friday, and TCQ is continuing Ten Things We Get Wrong About College with: * #5 - Ugh! [Perfect Daughter] has to take the SAT. (What for? Let’s get into it.) I have nothing against standardized tests, but they are ve
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Today we continue TCQ’s series on Ten Things We Get Wrong About College with … #6: There’s a college debt crisis! (No. But there are problems.) Conventional wisdom is that college costs a fortune because students can jus
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A couple of notes for TCQ readers: * You can listen to articles on Substack, and as of yesterday, if you hit the Play button, it’ll be me reading the article. Is it an improvement over the animatronic version? You be the
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