Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Cheshire Cat’s advice to Alice has parallels in higher ed, especially for faculty trying to make sense of the multitude of digital courseware solutions in order to personalize learning for students. We know that we have to create a more personalized learning environment to do that. What problem do I need to solve?”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Emily Kaplan, for The Hechinger Report. Earlier this year, Ricketa Bluford, a teacher at the Elk Grove campus of the Sacramento Academic and Vocational Academy (SAVA), assigned her students a personal narrative essay. Related: Personalized learning gives students a sense of control over chaotic lives.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

It’s led by a tandem of familiar faces in the edtech investing scene: Learn Capital partner-and-everyman Michael Staton, and Don Burton, who has built his own portfolio of dozens of startups through his time running the Kaplan EdTech Accelerator and EDGE Edtech Accelerator. No silver linings here, either.

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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.” ” Wait, so Purdue is gonna run Kaplan and a nuclear lab? ” Former Kaplan exec Justin Serrano has been hired as the president of Schoology. ” Immigration and Education.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

“ Purdue-Kaplan online university one step closer to reality,” the Journal & Courier reports. “ Iowa State University seeks 7 percent annual tuition hike for each of next 5 years,” The Des Moines Register reports. Larry Cuban on personalized learning : part 1 and part 2.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Still more education news from the UK: “ Sam Gyimah replaces Jo Johnson as universities minister ,” The Times Higher Education reports. Kudos to the Houston Chronicle for the original reporting on this in 2016. Lots of very excited and uncritical reporting on the new charter school on Oracle’s campus.

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Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

Via The LA School Report : “ LAUSD approves $7.5 ” “ Louisiana Becomes First State to Ban the Box,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ” “Students’ Rising Expectations Pose Challenge to Online Programs ,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. State and Local) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” Via The LA Times : “Trump is ending Michelle Obama’s ‘ Let Girls Learn ’ initiative, CNN reports.” ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “There’s a Reason the Purdue - Kaplan Deal Sounds Too Good to Be True.” The school in question: Bethune-Cookman University.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

“ Lights go out at Education Department headquarters – and may stay off for some time,” The Washington Post reports. The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to push ahead with his nomination today, despite the numerous reports now about Brett Kavanaugh ’s history of drunkenness and alleged sexual assault.

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Hack Education

JULY 6, 2018

Via The Chicago Sun Times : “1 in 4 Chicago schools fails in new inspections spurred by dirty schools reports.” “ Grand Canyon Succeeds in Second Nonprofit Bid,” reports Inside Higher Ed. ” That’s Kaplan , in case you can’t keep all these for-profit disasters straight. .”

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Hack Education

JUNE 29, 2018

The former: Purdue University ; the latter: Kaplan University. Meanwhile on Campus… Excellent reporting from The Oregonian’s Bethany Barnes : “Targeted: A Family and the Quest to Stop the Next School Shooter.” .” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. ” asks Edsurge. million, up from $4.3

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

.” In other Department of Education bureaucratic nightmares, “Dozens of Colleges’ Upward Bound Applications Are Denied for Failing to Dot Every I,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. Testing, Testing… “Nation’s Report Card Finds Mixed Grades For U.S. ” Immigration and Education.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

It’s a bit tricky to do some weeks – because some weeks I’m traveling and some weeks a major event happens in the middle of the week making some of the “before” reporting seem a little odd. Casey Parks is such a great journalist and I am thrilled she is working for The Hechinger Report. But will he listen?”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Horizon Report. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. But as the ed-tech sector is never willing to let a bad idea die, the report will live on. The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade.

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Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

Via Broadly : “ Betsy DeVos to Meet with Men’s Rights Groups , Reports Say.” On the US House of Representatives’ proposed budget : “$2 Billion for Teacher Training, Salaries Eliminated in House Budget Plan,” Education Week reports. ” (State and Local) Education Politics. and from Hacker News.

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Hack Education

MAY 19, 2017

Via The Washington Post : “ Betsy DeVos was asked to address education reporters at their annual convention. ” Via The Washington Post : “Secret report shows ‘special’ treatment for public officials in D.C. Via Edsurge : “Why Donald Graham Sold Kaplan University to Purdue for $1.”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

“What Decades Of Covering School Shootings Has Taught Me” by NPR’s longtime education reporter, Claudio Sanchez. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “As Kaplan Sale Faces Final Hurdle, Purdue President Criticizes Faculty Opponents.” Research, “Research,” and Reports. School Shooting.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 13, 2017

” Via Edsurge : “ Betsy DeVos Visits Bay Area Public School for a Lesson in Personalized Learning.” Via The Washington Post : “A hiccup in Purdue ’s acquisition of for-profit Kaplan University.” The Economic Times of India reports that “Udacity to focus on individual student projects.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2017

” Facebook’s CEO believes in personalized learning. Netflix’s CEO believes in personalized learning. Knewton founder Jose Ferreira formerly worked at Kaplan. A company that really drives the ideology that underpins how we talk about the future of school and tech. The Princeton Review?

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Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

” “The Trump administration just failed to stop a climate lawsuit brought by 21 kids,” The Chicago Tribune reports. ” Via The Conversation : “ Purdue-Kaplan deal blurs lines between for-profit and public colleges.” ” There’s more on the new Kaplan in the accreditation section below.

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