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Education Politics The FCC will seek public comments on a proposal to allow the Lifeline program to subsidize broadband, much as it has long subsidized phone service, to low income households. Senators Angus King and (I-Maine) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) introduced the Digital Learning Equity Act of 2015, which...

This article first appeared on Educating Modern Learners in March 2015 Last month, a story from New York's PS 116 went viral: the school sent a note home to parents, explaining that it had stopped giving homework so that kids could do something else with their time after school -...

This is not the history of the phrase "education technology." But someone should write that... Ed-tech. Is it short for “education technology” or “educational technology”? And really, what’s the difference? Does “ed-tech” mean “instructional technology,” or does it refer to “learning technologies”? (Look at that previous sentence. One phrase is...

RIP Kalief Browder, 1993–2015 Kalief Browder, a young man profiled in a New Yorker story last year, who spent three years in solitary confinement on Rikers Island without ever being committed of a crime, has died. He committed suicide. Education Politics The Department of Education announced this week that it...

This keynote was delivered today at EDEN 2015 in Barcelona. (Or at least, it's a version of my talk...) You can find my slides here. When I was asked to give a title for this talk several months ago, I quickly made something up (as one does), throwing out this...

“Television came to American Samoa on Sunday afternoon, October 4, 1964.” Thus opens a 1981 book by mass communications scholar William Schramm and his colleagues, Bold Experiment: The Story of Educational Television in American Society. Although there were other instructional television initiatives ongoing around the world, its introduction in American...

Five years ago today, I published my first post here on Hack Education. The origin story of the blog is one that I’ve told a lot – I was a tech blogger, editors didn’t want me to write about ed-tech, they couldn't stop me, blah blah blah. Kin tells the...

Education Politics WTF, Wisconsin. First, it was the $300 million slashed from the budget for public higher ed. Now, the state’s Joint Finance Committee voted (12 to 4) to eliminate tenure from state statute. It also moved to limit faculty’s role in shared governance. More coverage from The New York...

This post first appeared on aud.life Rolin Moe has followed up on my essay on the history of “The Learning Channel” with a fabulous post on “The Golden Age of Education That Never Was.” I’m grateful to Rolin for many of the resources that I used in my story, and...

This post first appeared on Educating Modern Learners in March, winter in the Northern Hemisphere at least North America is in the middle of a particularly rough winter. February was Toronto's coldest month on record, with temperatures never getting above freezing. Buffalo, Syracuse, Binghamton, and Ithaca, New York also had...