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Education Law and Politics New Orleans becomes the first all-charter school district in the US. Professors and students (past and present) from Cooper Union have filed a lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court seeking to block the school’s plans to begin to charge tuition. The ACLU has filed a class action...

Education Law and Politics The FTC has weighed in on the bankruptcy proceedings for ConnectEDU, expressing concern that the data of some 20 million students might not be protected. Stuart Magruder, an LA architect who’s been an outspoken opponent of LAUSD’s plans to use school construction bonds to pay for...

Here are the notes and slides from my keynote today at the Alberta Digital Learning Forum. The idea behind the forum: to imagine what education will look like in the province in 2030. I tried not to go full dystopia. I really did. As I started to pull together my...

Education Law and Politics The FCC has committed $450 million in funding to improve public schools’ and libraries’ broadband under the E-Rate program. (PDF) But it's still moving forward with plans to end net neutrality. So don't get too excited about "high speed Internet" in schools, eh? Today is the...

Here are the notes and the slides from my keynote today at the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education conference.  When I first was asked a couple of months ago to let the conference organizers know the title for my keynote today, I quickly glanced at the theme of the...

I gave a talk this morning at Berkeley City College to kick off an event about outsourcing, adjunctivism, and higher education culture. I wanted to talk about labor and technology -- not just about MOOCs, essay-grading software, and other education technologies in the news and in classrooms today, but about some...

Education Law and Politics The kidnap of almost 300 girls from a boarding school in Nigeria last month is getting more attention, sure, but the girls are still missing (and other abductions are still happening). Amnesty International said today that the Nigerian military knew about Boko Haram's plans to kidnap the girls, but...

The big huge major celebrity-filled edu news this week: comedian Louis CK tweeted in frustration about his kids’ math homework. And really that’s all we need to know: a famous parent questioned standardized testing and the Common Core. Or at least, that’s all that’s necessary to spawn a zillion “think...

The FCC and Net Neutrality The FCC is making moves to change the rules surrounding “Net Neutrality,” the idea that the Internet should not give preferential treatment to certain data or certain companies. The new proposal will give communications carriers and content companies “faster lanes.” This could have a major...

Here are the slides and notes from my keynote today at the Domain of One's Own Incubator at Emory University. Initially I wanted to talk about "Why A Domain of One's Own Matters" but it turned into more a rant (surprise surprise) about the politics of technology. “What technologies have...