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. In 2013, on the heels of “the Year of the MOOC,” Barber released a report titled “An Avalanche is Coming,” calling for the “unbundling” of higher education.

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ Trump Orders Review of Education Policies to Strengthen Local Control.” 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. Education Politics. The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 13, 2017

” IPEDS is the government’s database tracking post-secondary education statistics, including enrollments and graduations. Via The Washington Post : “A hiccup in Purdue ’s acquisition of for-profit Kaplan University.” ” Never one to let a good MOOC story pass them by, Edsurge repeats the story.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

” I’ve looked at how for-profit colleges , MOOCs , and learn-to-code companies have tapped into these narratives in order to justify their products and services. These have all been separate articles in each series. “More Americans just need the right training.” weird that, eh?)

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Jeb Bush’s lieutenant governor, as assistant secretary of elementary and secondary education, the top post at the Education Department overseeing K–12 policy.” Kaplan Inc has agreed to acquire the College for Financial Planning from Apollo Education Group. MOOCs are out. More via Techcrunch.

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