The truth is that the next-generation student will drive technologies into schools, just as the next-generation workforce is driving them into business.
For example, while almost all universities maintain thesis archives, few, if any, made the effort to digitize student works and make them available to the next generation of student learners.
If this is not there, then the hopes and expectations for the next generation of student midwives are bleak.
Iowa City's Pear Deck is building on local assets in testing (remember the Iowa Test of Basic Skills?) to create the next generation of student assessment, and New Orleans' GoToInterview takes advantage of the Big Easy's bulk of hospitality workers to create a more inclusive hiring process for minimum-wage staff.
Already, we see the shutters come down on the next generation of students and with cuts to research funding – the next generation of PhD students and therefore, the next generation of critical thinkers who could pose a challenge and alternative to those in positions of power.
Democrats in Congress introduced "pay-it-forward" legislation, a modified version of human capital contracts that would replace college tuition with a share of each student's future income, and that money would then be used to finance the next generation of students.
As a twentysomething with her own hefty student loans, this sounded like a great idea if it didn't help me, it would help the next generation of students be less broke as they entered the workforce.
Margherita Asti, 21, a foundation student at London College of Communication, UAL, says: Occupations allow us to voice our opinions and support the next generation of students.
We need a new deal for higher education funding for the next generation of students".
My goal is to improve the circumstances of the next generation of student-athletes.
Aspire has an unscripted series planned for 2013-14 titled "U.N.C.F.: The Next Generation," about students assisted by the United Negro College Fund.
