Deep Dives

Phoenix And Fuel50 Signal A Fight Over Pathway Logic

Sep 23, 2026

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7 min read

Phoenix And Fuel50 Signal A Fight Over Pathway Logic

Why a university owner just bought the software that matches employees to their next role.

Amanda Ardizzi

Phoenix Is Moving Adult Education Into Workforce Planning

Sep 23, 2026

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7 min read

Phoenix Is Moving Adult Education Into Workforce Planning

Fuel50 gives Phoenix a route to sell education against mobility decisions, if employers accept a planning platform tied to a degree provider.

Amanda Ardizzi

Teacher-Training Ruling Reopens a Key Workforce Funding Question for Districts

Sep 23, 2026

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3 min read

Teacher-Training Ruling Reopens a Key Workforce Funding Question for Districts

A federal court decision has removed the policy behind more than $600 million in cancelled teacher-training grants, giving districts and their higher education partners more clarity while leaving the future of individual awards unresolved.

Amanda Ardizzi

Teacher-Training Ruling Reopens the Funding Question for K-12 Vendors

Sep 23, 2026

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4 min read

Teacher-Training Ruling Reopens the Funding Question for K-12 Vendors

A federal court decision has removed the policy behind more than $600 million in cancelled teacher-training grants, while the actual purchasing capacity tied to those awards remains uncertain.

Amanda Ardizzi

The New Procurement Test for AI Inside College Platforms

Sep 23, 2026

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4 min read

The New Procurement Test for AI Inside College Platforms

Embedded AI is becoming harder to sell when institutions cannot separate instructional, operational, assessment, and student data risks.

Vanessa Sawler

Sep 16, 2026

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6 min read

When a $55M Gift Becomes a Capital Risk

Large pledges are gaining operational force inside institutions before they've fully passed finance, legal, naming, and liquidity tests.

Vanessa Sawler

AI Training Budgets Are Shifting to Implementation

Sep 16, 2026

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8 min read

AI Training Budgets Are Shifting to Implementation

Accenture and Google Cloud show how AI capability spending can shift toward the integrators that control deployment, credentials, and the skills agenda.

Amanda Ardizzi

The Out-of-State Tuition Premium Is Splitting

Sep 16, 2026

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8 min read

The Out-of-State Tuition Premium Is Splitting

Regional publics are starting to price nearby nonresidents differently. Towson’s new Mid-Atlantic rate shows what has to go right for the economics to work.

Vanessa Sawler

The Visa Rule That Pulls Redeployment Into the Restructuring Room

Sep 16, 2026

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6 min read

The Visa Rule That Pulls Redeployment Into the Restructuring Room

A shorter visa clock could expose which companies have real internal mobility systems, and which only have the infrastructure.

Amanda Ardizzi

Why Edtech Pilots Rarely Become District Contracts

Sep 16, 2026

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5 min read

Why Edtech Pilots Rarely Become District Contracts

Even when pilots show strong classroom results, most never reach districtwide adoption

Amanda Ardizzi

Why Your Substitute Strategy Still Isn’t Working

Sep 16, 2026

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5 min read

Why Your Substitute Strategy Still Isn’t Working

Even after pay increases and outsourcing, coverage gaps persist. The issue is structural.

Amanda Ardizzi

Artificial Intelligence Budgets Are Moving Inside the Job

Sep 9, 2026

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9 min read

Artificial Intelligence Budgets Are Moving Inside the Job

Task drift inside retained roles is pulling learning demand toward diagnostics, skills data, and performance evidence.

Amanda Ardizzi

Private Colleges Face a Race Data Architecture Test

Sep 9, 2026

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7 min read

Private Colleges Face a Race Data Architecture Test

Reporting demands are preserving race data while tax exposure narrows where private college systems can use it.

Vanessa Sawler

Race Data Is Becoming Workflow Risk for Private Colleges

Sep 9, 2026

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6 min read

Race Data Is Becoming Workflow Risk for Private Colleges

A tax proposal could force institutions to treat demographic data not as routine reporting content, but as a governed input across admissions, aid, advising, athletics, and other student-facing decisions.

Vanessa Sawler

The K-12 AI Market Is Shifting From Capability to Control

Sep 9, 2026

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5 min read

The K-12 AI Market Is Shifting From Capability to Control

NYC’s student AI restrictions show why the next competitive advantage may come from how easily districts can govern a product, not how powerful its underlying model is.

Amanda Ardizzi

When “Approved” Edtech Is No Longer Enough

Sep 9, 2026

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5 min read

When “Approved” Edtech Is No Longer Enough

NYC’s restrictions on student-facing generative AI point to a harder governance problem for districts: controlling individual capabilities inside the technology they already use.

Amanda Ardizzi

Your Reskilling Plan Is Looking at the Wrong Unit of Work

Sep 9, 2026

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6 min read

Your Reskilling Plan Is Looking at the Wrong Unit of Work

AI is changing tasks faster than job titles. What CHROs and CLOs should rethink about reskilling, training measurement, and L&D investment.

Amanda Ardizzi

Sep 2, 2026

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5 min read

From Approved List to Classroom Reality

Approval establishes a baseline. Local procurement and implementation determine whether the investment actually works.

Amanda Ardizzi

The Registrar Record That Could Reshape Accreditor Leverage

Sep 2, 2026

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5 min read

The Registrar Record That Could Reshape Accreditor Leverage

Written course rationales would connect academic judgment, student outcomes, and disclosure risk in ways many systems are not prepared to support.

Vanessa Sawler

The Three Competitions Behind a Curriculum Adoption

Sep 2, 2026

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5 min read

The Three Competitions Behind a Curriculum Adoption

Publishers are spending years to clear state reviews, then competing again for district contracts and long-term usage.

Amanda Ardizzi

Tobacco Surcharge Litigation Is Rewriting Wellness Procurement

Sep 2, 2026

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6 min read

Tobacco Surcharge Litigation Is Rewriting Wellness Procurement

A wellness product becomes a compliance asset when premium dollars create discoverable evidence.

Amanda Ardizzi

Tobacco Surcharges Are Turning Wellness Into a Compliance Purchase

Sep 2, 2026

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6 min read

Tobacco Surcharges Are Turning Wellness Into a Compliance Purchase

When a learning or wellness program changes what employees pay, procurement has to evaluate the workflow around the content as closely as the content itself.

Amanda Ardizzi

Transfer Credit Rules Could Create a New Higher Ed Workflow Market

Sep 2, 2026

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4 min read

Transfer Credit Rules Could Create a New Higher Ed Workflow Market

A proposed accreditation rule would turn transfer-credit denials into documented, appealable decisions, increasing demand for systems that connect registrar workflows, curriculum data, student records, and compliance reporting.

Vanessa Sawler

Aug 26, 2026

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3 min read

AI Is Breaking the Training Seat Model

AI-driven workforce redesign is separating training demand from employee count, creating new exposure for vendors whose revenue still scales with seats.

Amanda Ardizzi

Aug 26, 2026

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4 min read

Fewer Employees Can Mean More Training

As AI makes smaller teams plausible, L&D leaders need to separate training spend that should disappear with roles from capability investment that may need to increase.

Amanda Ardizzi

Deep Dives

Phoenix And Fuel50 Signal A Fight Over Pathway Logic

Phoenix Is Moving Adult Education Into Workforce Planning

Teacher-Training Ruling Reopens a Key Workforce Funding Question for Districts

Teacher-Training Ruling Reopens the Funding Question for K-12 Vendors

The New Procurement Test for AI Inside College Platforms

When a $55M Gift Becomes a Capital Risk

AI Training Budgets Are Shifting to Implementation

The Out-of-State Tuition Premium Is Splitting

The Visa Rule That Pulls Redeployment Into the Restructuring Room

Why Edtech Pilots Rarely Become District Contracts

Why Your Substitute Strategy Still Isn’t Working

Artificial Intelligence Budgets Are Moving Inside the Job

Private Colleges Face a Race Data Architecture Test

Race Data Is Becoming Workflow Risk for Private Colleges

The K-12 AI Market Is Shifting From Capability to Control

When “Approved” Edtech Is No Longer Enough

Your Reskilling Plan Is Looking at the Wrong Unit of Work

From Approved List to Classroom Reality

The Registrar Record That Could Reshape Accreditor Leverage

The Three Competitions Behind a Curriculum Adoption

Tobacco Surcharge Litigation Is Rewriting Wellness Procurement

Tobacco Surcharges Are Turning Wellness Into a Compliance Purchase

Transfer Credit Rules Could Create a New Higher Ed Workflow Market

AI Is Breaking the Training Seat Model

Fewer Employees Can Mean More Training

Education Executive Intelligence By The Intelligence Council

Education Executive Intelligence
By The Intelligence Council