The Future of Education Demands Skills Over Degrees

As Indiana's first Secretary of Education, Dr. Katie Jenner leads the Indiana Department of Education and chairs the State Board of Education with a learner-centered, future-focused vision. Indiana has deployed a number of tactical solutions under Dr. Jenner’s leadership, including securing and implementing Indiana’s largest-ever financial investment in literacy focused on science of reading, launching a comprehensive teacher supply/demand marketplace that tracks vacancies, matches teachers with open positions, and helps recruit new teachers, as well as developing Indiana Graduates Prepared to Succeed (GPS), a new performance dashboard which re-envisions how the state strategically measures school performance and student learning.

Timothy Knowles is the 10th president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Prior to joining Carnegie, he served as founder and managing partner of the Academy Group, an enterprise designed to reduce economic disparities and prepare extraordinary young people from under-resourced communities for wealth-building, purposeful careers. Knowles has started multiple social sector and commercial organizations, holds an academic appointment at the University of Chicago and writes and speaks widely on entrepreneurship, education, and the pursuit of justice.

Dr. David Miyashiro is a forward-thinking, award-winning education leader with a 20-year career spent revolutionizing learning approaches, education models, and school district capabilities in Southern California. As a digital pioneer, he has navigated districts into the hi-tech era, delivering numerous innovation “firsts,” for which he has garnered professional honors. Those include Superintendent of the Year and recognition from the White House and U.S. Department of Education as one of the “Top 35 District Leaders in Personalized Learning.”

Laura Slover is Managing Director of Skills for the Future, a joint initiative of ETS and Carnegie Foundation to transform education and measure what matters most. Previously, she was the founder and CEO of CenterPoint Education Solutions. Laura started her career as a high school English teacher in Colorado. She was the Senior Vice President, at Achieve, Inc. and then was the founding CEO of the Partnership for Assessment of College and Careers (PARCC), a consortium of states advancing college- and career-readiness through quality assessments. She lives in Washington, DC, where she served eight years on the Board of Education.