The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

The group pledged to review all its policies to prioritize equity. He ordered the district to make its gifted admissions policies fair to students of all races and eliminate the separate class for Hispanic kids. Beyond the specific policy changes, the district realized that educating its employees and the public was also important.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

“I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link]. Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye the week of March 13, 2017 – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Danusis and her teaching staff practice personalized learning, an individual-comes-first approach, usually aided by laptops, that has become a reformist calling card in education. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. It looks unlike any school I ever attended. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Google Expeditions. With Google Expeditions out of Beta, and Google developing more and more expeditions for the classrooms, expect to see the use of this fantastic application to explode in 2017. Google Expeditions enable teachers to bring students on virtual trips to places like museums, underwater, and outer space.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

” The Fordham Institute’s Michael Petrelli has declared “ The End of Educational Policy.” ” (So instead of “testing” we’ll have ubiquitous, non-stop surveillance / assessment via “personalized learning.” “What Does Personalized Learning Mean?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

And, in an age where teachers are being asked to shoulder an increasingly heavy load, AI-generated content can save time, unlock creativity, personalize learning, inspire joy, and ultimately make the profession more sustainable. The idea that a robot can replace teachers is laughable.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

“Will Reversal of FCC’s ‘Net Neutrality’ Policy Help or Hurt Schools?” Schools should consider the ways in which their own social media surveillance re-inscribes these sorts of violent, nationalist policies. Department of Labor as a senior policy adviser.” ” “Education Dept. .

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Hack Education

JUNE 1, 2018

The Hechinger Report on personalized learning : “The massive experiment in New Orleans schools that few have noticed.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” Via Science : “How researchers are teaching AI to learn like a child.” ECS Learning Systems has acquired PREPWORKS.

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Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

’s Mumps Outbreak Tells Us About Our Vaccine Policies.” More on for-profit higher ed policies in the for-profit higher ed section below. Google has launched a curriculum called “ Be Internet Awesome ” to encourage digital safety and citizenship. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Education in the Courts.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

” Chalkbeat on vouchers in Indiana : “Choice for most: In nation’s largest voucher program, $16 million went to schools with anti-LGBT policies.” ” The New York Times on “ mastery based learning ” : “A New Kind of Classroom: No Grades, No Failing, No Hurry.” ” Holy s**t.

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Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

Senate to serve as Assistant Secretary for Career, Technical and Adult Education and Assistant Secretary for Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development , respectively.” Fines Google $5.1 which makes these sorts of policy moves chuckle-worthy (to me, at least). Via The New York Times : “ E.U.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

” It’s pretty terrible to report on how a “ President Oprah ” would shape education policy and not talk about how she has actively promoted pseudoscience. But maybe a lot of education policy is based on pseudoscience, so that’s why we can just let that slide… Via Chalkbeat : “President Winfrey? .”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Via The New York Times : “Early Facebook and Google Employees Form Coalition to Fight What They Built.” Doesn’t seem like any journalists caught this, tho: A couple of things about that group of former FB and Google employees who have founded the Center for Humane Tech: 1. .” ” $3000 for three headsets.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2018

Via Wired : “ Google’s Diversity Stats Are Still Very Dismal.” ” Honestly, people, there is a thing called 'BitSchool' now, doing 'personalized learning solution' through a blockchain 'paid for use system' - how much b t can we take??!! Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

” Via Edsurge : “ Britannica CEO Talks Google, Wikipedia and What Lil Pump Can Teach Us About Credibility.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” “How do children of color learn to draw themselves? Via The Atlantic : “The Rise and Fall of the Family-Vacation Road Trip.”

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Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

” Via Bloomberg : “Inside Google ’s Shadow Workforce.” ” Just make a note of this for the next time you hear someone tout how great the hiring process and work environment are at Google. Via the Google blog : “What’s happening next for G Suite Enterprise for Education.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 29, 2018

“ Google , Facebook , Verizon , Comcast and AT&T each contributed $200,000 to a committee opposing the proposed ballot measure, and lobbyists had estimated that businesses would spend $100 million to campaign against it before the November election.” Learn How They Are Expanding.” ” Testing. More churnalism.

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

Bloomberg reports that “ Trump Administration Tapping Tech CEOs for STEM Policy Approach.” Via The Daily Times : “Blount County Schools building new options to personalize learning.” ” Boy, it seems as though “personalized learning” is really just code for “virtual charter schools.”

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Education MOOC Company Report 43

Hack Education

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. Speaking of loans, Google will ban ads for payday loans. From the HR Department.

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Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

Via The New York Times : “ Trump Finds Unlikely Culprit in School Shootings: Obama Discipline Policies.” ” Via The Wall Street Journal : “ Visas Issued to Foreign Students Fall, Partly Due to Trump Immigration Policy.” Perhaps it should go in the “robots” section.

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Education MOOC Company Report 46

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

” Via Texas Monthly : “Meet the Women Whose Persistence Made Texas A&M Change Its Sexual Assault Policies.” ” Via The New York Times : “ Google Workers Reject Silicon Valley Individualism in Walkout.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” (I missed this news last week.)

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Hack Education

MAY 19, 2017

DeVos is the former chair of the American Federation for Children, which advocates for school choice policies, such as tax credit scholarships and vouchers. He’s referring to “ personalized learning ,” but might as well be any buzzword when you frame the headline that way, bud.). ” Go, School Sports Team!

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

” Via The 74 : “ Trump Towers Over Education: How His Candidacy Is Already Affecting Federal Policy.” From the edX blog : “How to be a Better Learner: Determine Your Learning Style.” “ Robots won’t replace teachers because they can’t inspire us.” A screen sharing app.

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Hack Education

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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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

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. ” Google announces more updates to its pseudo-LMS, Google Classroom.

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Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

” Via The New York Times : “ Campus Rape Policie s Get a New Look as the Accused Get DeVos’s Ear.” ” Via The New York Times : “ DeVos Says She Will Revisit Obama-Era Sexual Assault Policies.” ” More on the Afghan robotics team in the contest section below. for Robotics Contest.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 17, 2017

Via Reuters : “ Apple , Google , Facebook skip legal challenge to new travel ban.” ” In other Google news, Google now allows anyone to use Google Classroom , even those without a GAFE account. “Problems with Personalized Learning ” by Dan Meyer. “Tele-instruction.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Via ProPublica : “Another Unrealistic Trump Policy Proposal: Homeschool Vouchers.” ” Libertarian (and longshot) presidential hopeful Gary Johnson says his education policy proposals would involve scrapping the Department of Education. Via Buzzfeed : “ Clinton Touts Plan That Would Make College Free For Most.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2017

” Curious if students are allowed to use any tech products made by Oracle’s arch-nemesis, Google. “ Should Children Form Emotional Bonds With Robots? “Should Teachers Get $100 For Steering Kids To Google ‘s ’ Hour of Code ’ Lesson?” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Education Robotics Company Report 48

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

” Because being cruel and thin-skinned seems to be the policy priority for everyone in the Trump administration. Via Edsurge : “ ​Rhode Island ’s Plans to Become a ‘Lab State’ for Personalized Learning.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. school she visited – and they are not having it.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 7, 2018

” Via Buzzfeed : “Lawsuits Say Harvard’s Anti-Sexism Policy Discriminates Against Women.” ” “Most Schools Don’t Have Clear Restroom Policies , and That’s a Public-Health Problem,” says Pacific Standard. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. million total.

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Education MOOC Report Data 54

Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

And “personalization” is the underlying promise of the new education software Facebook is itself building. Personalized Surveillance at AltSchool. AltSchool, a private school startup, was founded in 2014 by Max Ventilla, a former Google executive. Or “ Phase 2 ,” as Techcrunch politely called it.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Says He Will Lead Federal Task Force on Higher-Ed Policy,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. Also via The New York Times : “ Google , in Post-Obama Era, Aggressively Woos Republicans.” “ inBloom ’s collapse undermined personalized learning and data standards efforts,” says danah boyd. (I’m

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

” The Texas Monthly on the future of the Texas Republican Party (with implications for education policy). The 74 interviewed Sal Khan on personalized learning and his goal to create a “ global diploma ,” which he says his company can “uniquely” do. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 10, 2017

There were other high profile incidents as well: the refusal, for example, to give visas to the all-girls robotics team from Afghanistan. Some technology companies have joined some of these lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s immigration policies. The actions of the administration should not come as a surprise.

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Hack Education

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. Via Wired : “Ex- Google Employee Claims Wrongful Firing For Criticizing James Damore ’s Memo.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 13, 2017

” Via Edsurge : “ Betsy DeVos Visits Bay Area Public School for a Lesson in Personalized Learning.” Also via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ Purdue ’s President Says Free-Speech Policy Forces Him to Defend Faculty Critic.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. The Business of Job Training.

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