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I’m publishing this week’s Hack Education Weekly News a little early this week. I plan to be offline tomorrow, January 20, so as to avoid any news about the Trump Inauguration. I join Representative...
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“It is now two and a half minutes to midnight,” according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists:For the first time in the 70-year history of the Doomsday Clock, the Bulletin of the Atomic...
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Ed-Tech in a Time of Trump
This talk was delivered at the University of Richmond. The full slide deck can be found here.Thank you very much for inviting me to speak here at the University of Richmond – particularly to Ryan...
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Education Politics “Will the Senate Block Betsy DeVos?” asks The Atlantic.“Betsy DeVos, Pick for Secretary of Education, Is the Most Jeered” by The New York Times’ Dana Goldstein. “How Betsy DeVos...
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Education Politics Betsy DeVos has been confirmed as the Secretary of Education– the first time that a Vice President has had to break a tie in the Senate for this sort of vote. Her confirmation comes...
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What's on the Horizon (Still, Again, Always) for Ed-Tech
The New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative have released the latest NMC Horizon Report for Higher Education.I have written quite a bit about the problems (as I see them) with the...
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Education Politics “How higher education made President Trump,” according to Jeffrey Selingo.Via Fusion: “ICE detained close to 700 immigrants in a five-day nationwide raid.”Via Education Week:...
View ArticleCalling Education to A Count
This article first appeared in the Data & Society publication Points in September 2016. It’s a response, in part, to the organization’s primer on accountability in education: “The Myth of...
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Education Politics Via The New York Times: “President Trump on Wednesday rescinded protections for transgender students that had allowed them to use bathrooms corresponding with their gender identity,...
View ArticleWhat 'Counts' as Ed-Tech When Counting Venture Capital?
I have updated my Ed-Tech Funding project with the dollars and deals from February. This past month, ed-tech startups raised $566,950,000. But there’s an asterisk by that figure as it includes...
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Education Politics President Trump gave a not-the-State-of-the-Union address to Congress on Tuesday. Details about the education-related elements of his speech from NPR, The New York Times, Education...
View ArticleThe History of the Future of E-rate
While much of the speculation about the future of education technology under President Trump has been focused on the new Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos (her investment in various ed-tech companies,...
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Education Politics As if applying for financial aid wasn’t difficult enough already, it appears that the IRS Data Retrieval Tool, which pulls tax information into the FAFSA app, “will be unavailable...
View ArticleRationalizing Those 'Irrational' Fears of inBloom
This article first appeared on Points, a Data & Society publication in February 2017That inBloom might exist as a cautionary tale in the annals of ed-tech is rather remarkable, if for no other...
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The Trump Budget This “skinny budget” is ridiculously cruel. More guns. Less butter. While it’s unlikely to be accepted by Congress, it does show Trump’s priorities.Secretary of Education Betsy "DeVos...
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Education Politics “Former Lobbyist With For-Profit Colleges Quits Education Department,” ProPublica reports. That’s Taylor Hansen who was a lobbyist for Career Education Colleges and Universities....
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Driverless Ed-Tech: The History of the Future of Automation in Education
This talk was presented at The University of Edinburgh's Moray House School of EducationLet me begin with a story. In December 2012 – we all remember 2012 right? “The Year of the MOOC” – I was summoned...
View ArticleSpencer Fellow!
Columbia Journalism School has awarded me a Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship for the 2017–2018 academic year. I can’t even begin to articulate how truly thrilled and humbled I am for this...
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Education Politics Via The New York Times: “North Carolina’s Love of College Sports Spurred Move to Repeal Bathroom Law.” Welp. It’s not clear, however, if the NCAA and others will end their boycott of...
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The Top Ed-Tech Trends (Aren't 'Tech')
This talk was presented at Coventry University as part of my visiting fellowship at the Disruptive Media Learning LabEvery year since 2010, I’ve undertaken a fairly massive project in which I’ve...
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