{"id":287309,"date":"2026-07-08T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/three-education-stocks-for-the-ai-economy\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T16:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:30:10","slug":"three-education-stocks-for-the-ai-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/three-education-stocks-for-the-ai-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Education Stocks For The AI Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/robertdaugherty\/2026\/07\/08\/three-education-stocks-for-the-ai-economy\/\">Three Education Stocks For The AI Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/robertdaugherty\/2026\/07\/08\/three-education-stocks-for-the-ai-economy\/\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/robertdaugherty\/2026\/07\/08\/three-education-stocks-for-the-ai-economy\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-08 14:53:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.forbes.com\">www.forbes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"-webkit-line-clamp:2\" class=\"Ccg9Ib-7 _8XF2kHYM\"> (Photo by Andrew Burton\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The most important education story in the market today is not simply online learning, college affordability or credentialing. It is the speed at which artificial intelligence is changing the value of human capital.<\/p>\n<p>Every company is now asking a version of the same question: how do we retrain workers fast enough to keep up with the economy they are already living in? That question makes education stocks worth another look. The best companies in the sector are no longer just selling degrees. They are serving working adults, international students, employers and families who understand that learning is becoming a lifelong economic necessity.<\/p>\n<p>Three public companies stand out: Laureate Education, Strategic Education and Stride.<\/p>\n<p>Laureate Education (LAUR) may be the cleanest international higher education story. The company operates higher education institutions in Mexico and Peru, two markets where expanding middle classes, professional credential demand and upward mobility remain powerful long-term themes. In the first quarter of 2026, Laureate reported that new enrollments increased 9%, total enrollments increased 6%, and revenue rose 15% to $272.6 million. The company also increased its full-year 2026 adjusted earnings per share guidance. <\/p>\n<p>The investment case for Laureate is straightforward. In Latin America, higher education remains closely tied to income mobility. In an AI economy, that demand should broaden. Students will not only need business, health care and engineering credentials. They will need the ability to work with intelligent systems, adapt to changing industries and compete in a labor market where technical literacy increasingly matters. Laureate gives investors exposure to that long-term trend outside the crowded U.S. market.<\/p>\n<p>Strategic Education (STRA) is a different kind of education company. It serves working adults through brands including Strayer University and Capella University, and it also has&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/robertdaugherty\/2026\/07\/08\/three-education-stocks-for-the-ai-economy\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Education Stocks For The AI Economy https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/robertdaugherty\/2026\/07\/08\/three-education-stocks-for-the-ai-economy\/ Publish Date: 2026-07-08 14:53:00 Source Domain: www.forbes.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":287310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imageio.forbes.com\/specials-images\/imageserve\/6a4e9bfe260d403d45702102\/0x0.jpg?format=jpg&height=900&width=1600&fit=bounds","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-287309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287311,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287309\/revisions\/287311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}