Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

” More on the policy change via IHE. The adaptive learning company has raised $16 million total. .” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “DeVos Withdraws Obama-Era Memos Focused on Improving Loan Servicing.” Here’s the very short press release from the Department of Education.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

It points to policies the university can pro-actively ennact, and laws that could have been enforced by university police.” ” According to WCET , “Developing Effective Courses Using Adaptive Learning Begins with Proper Alignment.”

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AUGUST 4, 2018

” Via The Wall Street Journal : “More Schools Are Buying ‘ Active-Shooter ’ Insurance Policies.” ” Via The Wall Street Journal : “Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘ No Experience Necessary ’ ” Contests and Awards. The adaptive learning company has raised $175.6

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JANUARY 19, 2018

Via Chalkbeat : “ DeVos criticizes Bush-Obama policies , saying it’s time to overhaul conventional schooling.” A new project from the Learning Policy Institute and EducationCounsel : “Reimagining College Access: Performance Assessments From K–12 Through Higher Education.” Monstrous, really.

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MAY 13, 2016

. “High school students will be allowed to carry mace in the 2016–2017 school year after the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education agreed to remove prohibitive language and amend its policy,” the Salisbury Post reports. ” Via The New York Times : “ CUNY Union Votes to Allow Strike if Contract Deal Is Not Reached.”

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MAY 20, 2016

Via NPR : “ Wyoming School District Stalls On Transgender Student Policy.” “ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.” From iNACOL: “ Promising State Policies for Personalized Learning.” Remember what I’ve said: watch the student loan space.).

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APRIL 28, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ Trump Orders Review of Education Policies to Strengthen Local Control.” ” I’m more interested in hearing about segregation and state laws in Mississippi than the adaptive learning software a school is using. Education Politics. ” Oh.

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

And certainly the expectation of many ed-tech products (and increasingly school policy) is that parents will do just this — participate in the incessant monitoring of student data. The sale, the FTC contended, would violate ConnectEDU’s own privacy policy, and it requested that users be notified so they could request their data be destroyed.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Says He Will Lead Federal Task Force on Higher-Ed Policy,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. Via Campus Technology : “ Harvard Tailoring the MOOC Experience With Adaptive Learning.” Via The Washington Post : “Many KIPP charter school alumni face financial hurdles in college, survey shows.”

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DECEMBER 18, 2016

That fuzziness – “ moving goalposts ” as math educator Dan Meyer has called it – does not stop the word “personalization” from being used all the time in policy documents and press releases: “ personalized test prep ” and “ personalized CliffNotes ” and the like.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

More federal stuff: Inside Higher Ed on restructuring at the US Department of Education : “Proposed reorganization would eliminate office of under secretary, which oversaw higher ed policy for much of the Obama and George W. The “ invisible ” “adaptive learning” company has raised $38.7

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Via Tony Bates : “Responses to the Canadian survey of online and distance learning.” ” Not sure how popular Facebook and Summit Public Schools ’ “personalized learning” platform is, for what it’s worth. ” Daniel Willingham on learning styles. .”

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JUNE 24, 2016

The adaptive learning company has raised $4.57 “Examining ethical and privacy issues surrounding learning analytics ” by Tony Bates. ” Via Mark Guzdial’s Computing Education Blog : “ Google-Gallup Survey now Disaggregated by States: Fascinating and confusing reading.” million total.

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AUGUST 4, 2017

” And by “take on,” that means “investigating and suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants.” ” More on Trump’s proposed immigration policies in the immigration section below. ” Icon credits: The Noun Project

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JULY 21, 2017

Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “ Adaptive Learning Products Gain Ground in K–12, Market Survey Finds.” ” “A new research paper finds that excess credit hour policies don’t lead to completion, just more student debt,” Inside Higher Ed reports.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

” “Policy-based Privacy is Over,” says Eric Hellman. Some (education policy) history from Sherman Dorn : “The pendulum and the ratchet.” Adeptemy , an adaptive learning company, has raised $3.48 Via Engadget : “Trump signs executive order stripping non-citizens of privacy rights.”

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