Hack Education

This post first appeared on aud.life This snapshot of the “US Educational Industrial Complex” made the rounds via social media over the weekend. The title says “snapshot,” I realize, but I have to point out that it’s missing a lot of information, particularly related to educational technology and venture capital....

Education Politics Via The New York Times: “Riot police officers and students protesting against tuition increases clashed on Wednesday outside the Parliament building in Cape Town, the latest in a series of student demonstrations that have gripped South Africa this year.” Following this week’s protests, South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma...

This keynote was delivered today at NWeLearn. The slides can also be found on Speaker Deck. This is – I think (I hope) – the last keynote I will deliver this year. It’s the 11th that I’ve done. I try to prepare a new talk each time I present, in...

This article first appeared in Bright, a Medium-based publication Student privacy has become one of the hottest issues in education, with some 170 bills proposed so far this year that would regulate it. These legislative efforts stress the need to protect students when they're online, safeguarding their data from advertisers...

Education Politics “Every few weeks, it seems, a new investigation is launched into one of the larger for-profit colleges in the country,” Inside Higher Ed reports. And yet… And yet: the US Department of Education just announced it will allow federal financial aid to be used for “alternative education providers,”...

This keynote was delivered today at ICDE 2015 in Sun City, South Africa. The slides can also be found on Speakerdeck. The obnoxious American: I am the one who flies all the way to South Africa, to an international education conference, to talk about the future of ed-tech as imagined,...

Education Politics Education history Sherman Dorn and doctoral student Amanda Potterton on Arne Duncan’s legacy. Education Week on Duncan’s ed-tech legacy. Politico on Duncan’s replacement, John King. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is investigating Wells Fargo over its student loan servicing practices, according to The Wall Street Journal. Eva Moskowitz,...

An excerpt from this week’s Hack Education Weekly Newsletter… Highly recommended: tweet something trollish before you get on a plane for 10+ hours. (e.g. this tweet.) How many people will take advantage of your Internet silence to mansplain ed-tech to you? Anyway, Mattel has a new View-Master that uses Google...

Education Politics US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced that he will step down in December. (President Obama will reportedly nominate John King as his replacement.) Earlier in the week, Duncan proposed a “prison-to-school pipeline,” reducing the number of people incarcerated for non-violent crimes and using the money saved for...

Education Politics The LA Times’ Howard Blume broke a story this week about the Broad Foundation’s “ambitious $490-million plan to place half of the city’s students into charter schools over the next eight years, a controversial gambit that backers hope will serve as a catalyst for the rest of the...