The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

Photo: Meghan E. The shift has coincided with improved test scores and graduation rates. “I Conferences for teachers from coast to coast brim with representatives from the multibillion-dollar technology industry, many of them promising to help teachers provide customized tracks for education.

Trends 40

Trends Study Knewton Personalized Learning 40

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Showing the Algorithms Behind New York City Services | New York Times → Algorithms can decide where kids go to school, how often garbage is picked up, which police precincts get the most officers, where building code inspections should be targeted, and even what metrics are used to rate a teacher. " Maybe, maybe not.

EdTech 150

EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Showing the Algorithms Behind New York City Services | New York Times → Algorithms can decide where kids go to school, how often garbage is picked up, which police precincts get the most officers, where building code inspections should be targeted, and even what metrics are used to rate a teacher. " Maybe, maybe not.

EdTech 150

EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

they do boost graduation rates.). Via Buzzfeed : “The Industry That Was Crushed By The Obama Administration.” Via Buzzfeed’s Molly Hensley-Clancy : “These Colleges Have The Worst Student Loan Default Rates In The Country.” ” You know what would be helpful Google? It lives.).

Education 40

Education E-rate MOOC Report 40

Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

Via Education Week : “ E-Rate , Other Universal-Service Funds to Be Transferred to U.S. ” That’s Joel Rose ’s School of One software. OpenSecrets.org on how the student loan industry and higher ed institutions spend their lobbying dollars : “The politics behind your college and how you pay for it.”

Education 45

Education Coursera Khan Academy MOOC 45

Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

” At least the e-cigarette company (which targets teens) offers a social-emotional learning curriculum, right? ” Via the AP : “ District of Columbia Mayor Muriel E. Fines Google $5.1 Via The Atlantic : “The Downsides of America’s Hyper-Competitive Youth-Soccer Industry.” ” Racist.

Education 46

Education MOOC Robotics Company 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. And “free” doesn’t last. 3D Printing. I know, I know.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

” The story contains some machinations at the Department of Education in which the White Hous e tried to fire a Jeb Bush-supporting staffer. ” asks Chester E. ” Via Edsurge : “ Google and Digital Promise Reimagine Teacher Tech Training with New National Program.” ” asks the Pioneer Press.

Education 43

Education MOOC Company Report 43

Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

Via CNBC : “ Google , Apple and 13 other companies that no longer require employees to have a college degree.” despite having Arizona ’s third-highest dropout rate.” ” Via the Google blog : “ VR Labs open doors of opportunity for STEM students.” ” Credentialing and Competencies.

Education 46

Education MOOC Kaplan Robotics 46

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

“5 Reasons Why e-textbooks in Egypt Would Be Inequitable” by Maha Bali. Edsurge’s Jeff Young and Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill both asked industry analyst Trace Urdan for his take. ” Via NBC News : “How to Thrive: Arianna Huffington Launches E-Learning Series.” ” asks Jade E.

Education 47

Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

MARCH 24, 2017

officials approve new rating system.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ U of Maryland University College pursues a strategy of spinning off units into stand-alone companies, seeking financial gain for itself and affordable tuition rates for its students.” Racism, Immigration, and Education. ” Bye, Mercator.

Education 52

Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 52

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Bust or not, companies across the tech sector, particularly those with high “burn rates” , faced tough choices in 2016: “cut costs drastically to become self-sustaining, or seek additional capital on ever-more-onerous terms,” as The WSJ put it – that is, if they were able to raise additional capital at all.

Technology 40

Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

“New report calls out NCAA for saying that black athletes graduate at higher rates than other black students, when that’s not true at the top conferences,” says Inside Higher Ed. This is so important to consider, as Tufekci noted on Twitter, in light of Google’s domination of the K–12 computing market.).

Education 46

Education MOOC Company Report 46

Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

Via The Chicago Tribune : “ Chance the Rapper writes $1 million check to CPS as a ‘call to action’ ” “The History of the Future of E-rate ” by me. Via The Outline : “ Google ’s featured snippets are worse than fake news.” ” asks Graham Attwell. to 2020, to Reach $1.83

Education 46

Education Robotics E-rate Social Media 46

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” “ Salesforce will start selling its online learning platform, which has helped its own employees change roles and get promotions,” says MIT Technology Review , going with the wonderful lie in the headline “Making Job-Training Software People Actually Want to Use.” ” asks MIT Technology Review.

Education 45

Education Facebook Company Report 45

Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Via Inside Higher Ed : “New report finds big-time college football players at wealthiest programs graduate at rates lower than their nonathlete male peers. Excellent work, education technology industry. ” Via Edsurge : “Educators, Tech Industry Leaders Collaborate to Develop K–12 Computer Science Framework.”

Education 40

Education Company Pearson E-rate 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Wheeler supported e-Rate reform and “ net neutrality.” ” Via The New York Times : “ Google Effect Rubs Off on Schools in One Rural Oklahoma Town.” “Online Education Pioneer Boots Up a Jobs Program for the Tech Industry,” the MIT Technology Review reports. Not so much.

Education 40

Education Elsevier Report Company 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

It treats “ed-tech” as the result of markets and industry and “innovation,” and not as the result of policy or history. There is No Technology Industry (There is Only Ideology). “ There is no ‘technology industry’ ,” technology writer and entrepreneur Anil Dash wrote in August.

Technology 40

Technology Education Facebook Company 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2016

now ranks near the bottom among 35 industrialized nations in math,” The Hechinger Report frets. million in charges from a Minnesota company over a software system that repeatedly failed during mandatory statewide elementary school testing.” “The 2015 PISA Results: What Do They Mean?” ” asks Education Week.

Education 40

Education Report E-rate Company 40