Work Shift strives to be a public square about the future of education and work. We welcome submissions of opinion essays from education leaders, funders, researchers, policymakers, and employers.
We’re especially interested in pieces that make strong arguments, defend those arguments clearly, and anticipate likely counterarguments. We’re not looking for essays that mainly serve to promote companies or products. These essays are not sponsored content.
We’re interested in short takes (250-500 words) on issues in the news, as well as traditional op-eds (600-950 words) and occasionally longer reported opinion pieces. Examples of recent opinions we’ve run are below.
Submissions must be original, human work. If you used AI to assist in developing and drafting your piece, you must tell us how, and decisions about acceptable use will be made on a case-by-case basis. Pieces that we suspect were primarily written by AI will be rejected.
Send your submission via email to editors@workshift.org. If you don’t hear back in about a week, feel free to follow up.
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