Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Perched in lime green desk chairs, dozens of employees of OpenStax work here to transform physics, calculus and psychology materials into digital textbooks that students can study at no cost. By the nonprofit’s estimates, more than half of U.S. colleges use at least one. These arrangements bring in key financial support to OpenStax.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

K-12 Cyber Incident Map: 8 School Districts Have Experienced Multiple Cyber Incidents Since 2016 , which reports on a trend that I’ve seen in tracking K-12 cyber incident reports: school districts suffering repeat cyber incidents, even in the short time I’ve been tracking the issue (since the start of 2016).

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

One recent study found “widespread acceptance of alternative credentialing programs at American colleges and universities.” Panelists in this discussion will discuss the study’s findings and the evolving attitudes towards alternative credentials in the workforce. When Public Education Data Isn’t Really Public : The U.S.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. Via The Hechinger Report : “Most immigrants outpace Americans when it comes to education – with one big exception.” ” Spoiler alert: Latinos.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

Pearson CEO John Fallon recently met with a group of reporters at Education Week’ s offices and spoke about his company’s business strategies and record, and offered a defense against some of its detractors’ claims. Recent studies, including one by Stanford’s CREDO project , have shown virtual schools producing poor results.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

.” And in Delaware , “Authorities have arrested two Smyrna high school students in connection with threats involving clowns and bombs ,” the AP reports. ” “ Clown College Calls National Rash of Rumored Clown Scares ‘Troubling’,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

Cooperate or Compete What happens when legacy publishers and OER upstarts meet in the same room to talk about a buzzy phrase like the “Netflix of Higher Ed”? Personalized Learning’ is Not an Algorithm Higher education and K-12 may hold different views about what personalized learning is—but at the very least, they agree what it is not.

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Kaplan Company EdTech Industry 94

Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Via Motherboard : “ New York City Passes Bill to Study Biases in Algorithms Used by the City.” Via NPR : “Grand Jury Report On Penn State Hazing Finds ‘Indignities And Depravities’ ” The Business (and Politics) of Student Loans. ” asks The Hechinger Report. Upgrades and Downgrades.

Education 46

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

“ Tax bill reflects rift between many Republicans and higher education,” The Washington Post reports. Restores Pell Eligibility to Nearly 300,000 Students,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. Via The Chicago Tribune : “Almost all student loan fraud claims involve for-profit colleges , study finds.”

Education 44

Education Khan Academy Company Training 44

Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

Via The LA School Report : “ LAUSD approves $7.5 ” “ Louisiana Becomes First State to Ban the Box,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ” “Students’ Rising Expectations Pose Challenge to Online Programs ,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. State and Local) Education Politics.

Education 53

Education Kaplan Pearson Elsevier 53

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Here are some reports from her travels: Via Chalkbeat : “What is Betsy DeVos ’s ‘rethink school’ initiative all about? ” DeVos visited my hometown of Casper, Wyoming to give this speech where she spoke at the Woods Learning Center. .” The accreditor: the Higher Learning Commission.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

Via Education Week : “Congress Budget Deal Bans New Gold-Standard Studies of Federal Vouchers.” ” Via The LA Times : “Trump is ending Michelle Obama’s ‘ Let Girls Learn ’ initiative, CNN reports.” ” Banning research on school vouchers ? Gee, I wonder why.

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Kaplan Education Blackboard MOOC 46

Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

. “ Conservative High Schoolers Want to ‘Own the Libs’,” The Atlantic’s Adam Harris reports from the Turning Point USA ’s conference. Via Wired : “Congress Has a $65 Million Proposal to Study Tech’s Effect on Kids.” ” Coleman University will close, IHE reports.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

The US Department of Education released its “ #GoOpenDistrict Launch Packet ,” encouraging schools to use OER. ” “ Kansas lawmakers, trying to head off a court shutdown of the state’s public schools, have increased aid to poor districts by $38 million,” NPR reports. ” Rebrand. .”

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MOOC Education Blackboard OER 48

Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

The Department of Education’s Chief Privacy Officer Kathleen Styles has been “reassigned,” Education Week reports. The** Department of Education** has selected the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education to manage its #GoOpen campaign. State and Local) Education Politics.

Education 46

Education MOOC Company Report 46

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

.” In other Department of Education bureaucratic nightmares, “Dozens of Colleges’ Upward Bound Applications Are Denied for Failing to Dot Every I,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. The NAACP endorses OER. Testing, Testing… “Nation’s Report Card Finds Mixed Grades For U.S.

Education 47

Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

.” “ Colorado Education Commissioner Rich Crandall announced his resignation Thursday just four-and-a-half months into the job, shocking the state’s education community and roiling the state Department of Education as it embarks on a number of critical initiatives,” Chalkbeat Colorado reports.

Education 46

Education Pearson Report Company 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Horizon Report. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. But as the ed-tech sector is never willing to let a bad idea die, the report will live on. The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Meanwhile, as The New York Times reports : “ Facebook , Under Fire in Russia Inquiry, Posts 79% Rise in Profit.” Via the CFPB press office : “ CFPB Report Finds Consumer Complaints Spurred Actions That Brought More Than $750 Million in Relief for Student Loan Borrowers.” Who’d have guessed?!

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Education Facebook Company Robotics 48

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Via Vox : “Brazilian media report that police are entering university classrooms to interrogate professors.” ” Then, “A Day Later, Football Coach Out at Maryland,” Inside Higher Ed reported. Via Getting Smart : “Extending Social Emotional Learning into the Home.”

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Education Company Report IXL Learning 53

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

. “Learning styles” in the White House: President Trump doesn’t read his daily intelligence briefings, gets oral briefings on “select” issues instead, because reading isn’t “his style of learning,” the @washingtonpost reports [link] — Kasie Hunt (@kasie) February 9, 2018. ” asks KQED’s Mindshift.

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Hack Education

JULY 29, 2016

.” “The University of Michigan has agreed to pay $165,000 to settle what was left of a lawsuit over a graduate student’s dismissal from an engineering program in 2011,” the AP reports. ” “ Carthage Goes Test Optional on Admissions,” Inside Higher Ed reports. From MIT President L.

Education 40

Education Company Report Data 40

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

“ How Not to Study Donald Trump ” – “To make sense of Trumpism, and to put Trump in his historical context, The Chronicle of Higher Education asked a mostly white group of scholars to suggest readings for a syllabus for a mock course in Trump Studies. Presidential Campaign Politics.

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Coursera Education E-rate Company 60

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

” Via Chalkbeat : “ Trump education nominee pleads ignorance about high-profile voucher studies showing negative results.” ” “ Google Is Being Investigated By Missouri Attorney General,” Fortune reports. More shadiness from Thiel in the campus news section below. ” Immigration and Education.

Education 47

Education OER Pearson Report 47

Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

” “The Trump administration just failed to stop a climate lawsuit brought by 21 kids,” The Chicago Tribune reports. ” “One Standardized Tests Provider Looks to Gaming and Personalized Learning to Innovate Exams” – Edsurge on ETS. Edsurge on the business of OER. But at what cost?”

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Education Kaplan Coursera MOOC 47

Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

But as Education Week reports , “States Bristle as DeVos Ed. ” Inside Higher Ed reports that “The Republican budget resolution envisions more than $236 billion in cuts to mandatory spending for education programs over 10 years.” And their parents can end up in jail,” AlterNet reports. for-profits?”

Education 46

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Hack Education

MAY 26, 2017

“ Betsy DeVos Refuses to Rule Out Giving Funds to Schools That Discriminate ,” The New York Times reports. Via Edsurge : “Possible ‘Fraud, Theft, Waste, and Abuse’: Report Questions NYC School Broadband Spending.” More Education Politics. TBH, there’s plenty of blame to go around.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

” “Betsy DeVos Won’t Shed Stake in Biofeedback Company , Filings Show,” The New York Times reports. Via The Guardian : “ Trump bans agencies from ‘providing updates on social media or to reporters’ ” This ban has been targeted at scientists at the EPA and USDA in particular.

Education 40

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Via The Hechinger Report : “Why Betsy DeVos ’ vision of education does little to ensure equity.” Also via Education Week : “Under New Leadership, FCC Quashes Report on E-rate Program ’s Success.” ” A copy of the report has been archived on Doug Levin’s website.

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