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(National) Education Politics Via Pacific Standard: “Government Watchdog Will Investigate Trump Administration on Civil Rights.” Via Bloomberg: “Campus Rape Loses Special Status in Trump’s Education Department.” Via The Washington Post: “Education Dept. closes transgender student cases as it pushes to scale back civil rights investigations.” Via The New York Times:...

These were my remarks as a guest speaker in Donna Murdoch's class “Online Teaching and Learning – Applying Adult Learning Principles” this evening. I was asked to speak about learning analytics, but like I said in my keynote last week at NMC, ed-tech is boring. So this is a talk...

(National) Education Politics “To Understand Betsy DeVos’s Educational Views, View Her Education,” says The New York Times. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education: “A Task Force With Falwell Is Happening, White House Says.” “More than 150 House and Senate Democrats sent Education Secretary Betsy DeVos a letter Monday that objected...

I delivered this talk today at the NMC Summer 2017 conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts Thank you very much for inviting me to your conference. I know there have been lots of murmurs about what it means that someone who’s been quite critical of the Horizon Report project would be invited...

Education Politics US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos appeared in front of a Senate subcommittee this week to talk about Trump’s budget proposal. “Asked About Discrimination, Betsy DeVos Said This 14 Times,” NPR reports: “Schools that receive federal funds must follow federal law.” That is, she completely hedged on whether...