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.
Submissions must be original. 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.
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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Can Apprenticeships Rebuild the Learning Curve that AI Is Flattening?
The old learning curve is being broken by machines—and apprenticeship could be a central strategy to deliberately rebuild it. That’s what National Apprenticeship Week should be about.
AI Is Moving Faster Than Philanthropy. That’s a Problem We Can (and Must) Fix.
The social sector’s ambition has gotten broader and more sophisticated, but our funding system is struggling to keep up.