Hack Education

It's the time of year for predictions: what will the next twelve months hold for education technology. I generally try to shy away from making predictions (okay, confession: I wrote one for Educating Modern Learners this week). I'm much better at analyzing what's happened and why than at forecasting what's...

Education Law and Politics The Department of Education announced that it had reached an agreement with Harvard University after finding its law school in violation of Title IX for its response to sexual harassment and sexual assault complaints. Georgia state lawmakers have passed legislation to reform lobbying, but have created...

Once a year, I crack open Google Analytics to see what traffic to Hack Education has looked like so that I can write another one of these year-end posts. (2013, 2012, 2011, 2010) I don’t really/regularly pay attention to metrics like pageviews. Are writers supposed to? I dunno… I write...

Much like my annual look at the “Top Ed-Tech Trends,” in previous years I’ve selected what I thought were the “Top Ed-Tech Startups.” (See 2011, 2012, 2013.) It’s something I started doing in 2010 when, as a tech blogger at ReadWriteWeb, I was assigned to write the year-end Top Startups...

Education Law and Politics The Chicago Sun-Times’ Lauren FitzPatrick reports that “Companies that Chicago Board of Education member Deborah Quazzo has an interest in have seen the business they get from the city’s schools system triple since Mayor Rahm Emanuel appointed her to the board last year.” Quazzo is the...

“Edward L. Thorndike won and John Dewey lost.”– Ellen Condliffe Lagemann As part of his graduate work, B. F. Skinner invented what’s now known as “the Skinner Box.” His “operant conditioning chamber” was used to study and to train animals to perform certain tasks. Do the task correctly; get a...

1. Buzzwords 2. The Business of Ed-tech 3. School and "Skills" 4. MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education 5. Competencies and Certificates 6. The Common Core State Standards 7. Data and Privacy 8. The Indie Web 9. Social Justice 10. #Fail Interested in previous years' ed-tech trends? See all all five...

Part 10 in my Top 10 Trends of 2014 series 2015 will mark the 25th anniversary of the first one-to-one laptop program. In 1990, the Methodist Ladies’ College in Melbourne, Australia gave all its students in Years 5 through 12 a computer. 2015 will mark the 35th anniversary of the...

Education Law and Politics 132 children and 9 staff died in a Pakistani Taliban attack on an army-run school in Peshawar – the “deadliest single attack in the group’s history.” (Globally, terrorist attacks on schools are on the rise.) "“I am heartbroken by this senseless and coldblooded act of terror,”...

Part 9 in my Top 10 Trends of 2014 series “Education is the civil rights issue of our time,” you’ll often hear politicians and education reform types say. I maintain that civil rights remain the civil rights issue of our time. When we see, for example, the Supreme Court overturn...