Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Also Facebook ’s DC lobbyist, Joel Kaplan, who was sitting right behind Kavanaugh as he screamed at Senators. " Sponsored content on Edsurge , paid for by the Gates Foundation , this week includes an article on office hours.

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MAY 5, 2017

Not ed-tech per se (unless you recognize that “personalized learning” is greyballing), but according to The New York Times , “ Uber Faces Federal Inquiry Over Use of Greyball Tool to Evade Authorities.” “ Social-Emotional Learning Is the Rage in K–12. ” Immigration and Education. .

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JULY 6, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” That’s Kaplan , in case you can’t keep all these for-profit disasters straight. ” The imagery in The Wall Street Journal article on “The New Tech Avengers ” speaks volumes. ” Don’t. .”

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NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” This is a profile of Bobbi Kurshan , Senior Fellow and Innovation Advisor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education (and an advisor to Edsurge – which certainly explains a lot about this article).

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JUNE 29, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. The former: Purdue University ; the latter: Kaplan University. ISTE calls this “ personalized learning.” All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education.

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APRIL 28, 2017

” asks WaPo’s Valerie Strauss, before reprinting an article by UVA professor Dan Willingham.). Purdue University is buying Kaplan University for a dollar. Me, I wrote about how far Kaplan Inc ’s reach is in education politics and products. The NAACP endorses OER. The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Um, they do.) The Death of Aaron Swartz.

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MAY 19, 2017

Via Edsurge : “Why Donald Graham Sold Kaplan University to Purdue for $1.” He’s referring to “ personalized learning ,” but might as well be any buzzword when you frame the headline that way, bud.). ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. Good job, team.). Upgrades and Downgrades.

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JULY 14, 2017

Kaplan is closing Dev Bootcamp , a coding bootcamp it acquired in 2014. Edsurge profiles “ personalized learning ” software used in a virtual school that has some 450 incarcerated students. Via Inside Higher Ed : “ OpenStax Launches Learning Platform.” and from Hacker News. Upgrades and Downgrades.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Although the shooting is a local story, I am putting many of the articles here in the national section because, over a week later, it is still very much in the national headlines. National) Education Politics. ” Of course.

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DECEMBER 18, 2017

I have published 8 of these end-of-year articles. As the article in Fortune described them: “highly intelligent workaholics who were good at math. ” Facebook’s CEO believes in personalized learning. Netflix’s CEO believes in personalized learning. Omidyar was the founder of eBay.).

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MARCH 9, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” And I am not even linking to the National Review article promoting this racist crap. ” Via The Conversation : “ Purdue-Kaplan deal blurs lines between for-profit and public colleges.” Via Edsurge : “?In

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