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This post first appeared on aud.life I've updated the Google spreadsheet where I'm tracking on the year's ed-tech startup funding. Well, I've partially updated it; I'll fill in the blanks and write an article with more in-depth analysis about 2015 funding patterns at the end of June. Nevertheless, you can download...

Earlier this month, In Touch magazine revealed that Josh Duggar, one of the stars of the TLC reality TV show 19 Kids and Counting, had been named in a 2005 police report as an “alleged offender” in a sexual assault probe. Duggar, then a juvenile, had been brought to the...

Education Politics Chris Christie was for the Common Core before he was against it. (He’s proposed that New Jersey drop the standards that Christie once pushed for.) As Politico notes, “The Republican flip-flop on the Common Core is nearly complete,” with almost every (potential) Republican presidential candidate now opposing the...

Like many kids, I reckon, field trips were some of my favorite and most memorable happenings at school. Field trips were great, in no small part, because they involved missing school. Schedules and lessons were interrupted so that we could all pile into school buses or parents’ cars and venture...

Education Politics and Policies Bernie Sanders for President. “Sanders introduced legislation that calls for the federal government to dole out $47 billion per year to states that agree to eliminate undergraduate tuition and fees at their public colleges and universities,” reports Inside Higher Ed. “Bernie Sanders’s plan to have Wall...

A couple of weeks ago, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that the University of California Berkeley will no longer post video recordings of its lectures to YouTube and iTunesU. The decision was framed in terms of “budget challenges” with a note that, as a partner with edX, Berkeley instead...

This article first appeared on Educating Modern Learners in February 2015 The interest roused by historical simulation games is readily explained,"" writes Jeremiah McCall in a 2012 article in The History Teacher. "These games offer immersive, interactive, multimedia representations of the past that are radically different from other forms of...

When I spoke at Davidson College earlier this month, several of the questions from the audience involved my framing of a “Silicon Valley narrative” involving education, technology, and innovation. They said that this narrative was unfamiliar to them – that the arguments that they heard, particularly from colleagues, about education,...

This post first appeared on aud.life From Neil Selwyn's Distrusting Educational Technology: While some appetite was shown for oppositional thought during the 1980s and 1990s (see, for example, the writings of Michael Apple, CA Bowers, Hank Bromley, Larry Cuban, Ivor Goodson and Neil Postman), the vast majority of academic discussion...

Education Politics Senators Edward Markey (D-MA) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) have reintroduced their update to FERPA, the “Protecting Student Privacy Act.” And David Vitter (R-LA) introduced his “Student Privacy Protection Act.” Vitter’s bill, according to Education Week, “would expand the types of student information covered under FERPA, require educational institutions...