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    edBurst - June 2015

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    edBurst Update

    A Newsletter for Education Leaders

    Mary Axelson, Editor


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    K-12

    The Education Assassins
    A contest for the least popular arm of the federal government would have many strong contenders...more>>


    If You're in EdTech, Then Hoping Someone Buys You Is Better Than a Business Model
    For quite some time now, entrepreneurs have been looking to the EdTech market as one where money will be made. The inevitable transformation of the schools model by technology will open up vast possibilities for innovation...more>>


    Report: Huge demand, support for wireless in wake of E-rate changes
    Data provided to Education Week by the Federal Communications Commission shows reforms made to the agency's E-rate program - which funds internal telecommunications connections in schools and libraries - have resulted in major demand for broadband services, as well as adequate funding support...more>>


    The Rise of AltSchool and Other Micro-schools
    From San Francisco to Austin, Texas, to New York, new forms of schooling termed micro-schools are popping up. As of yet, there is no common definition that covers all these schools, which vary not only by size and cost but also in their education philosophies and operating models...more>>


    Teachers on Data, Diplomas Count
    The Gates Foundation has released the latest report in its Teachers Know Best series. "Making Data Work for Teachers and Students" is based on the responses of more than 4,600 teachers about the digital tools available to help them collect and use data to tailor and improve instruction for individual students...more>>


    Test Preppers, Take Note: Free SAT Study Tools Could Signal Sea Change
    The SAT is undergoing major changes for 2016. And, as of today, students - for free - can tap into new online study prep tools from Khan Academy, the online education nonprofit...more>>


    SIF Association Remakes Itself to Focus on Data Usage in Schools
    The SIF Association, which for 18 years has stoked the data sharing specification behind the Schools Interoperability Framework, is moving on. The organization has taken a new name - Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community - and a new focus, shifting from identification, management and movement of data to use of data...more>>


    Personalized Learning

    An interesting report was released last week. "Technology-Enabled Personalized Learning: Findings and Recommendations to Accelerate Implementation" summarizes the findings from last year's Technology-Enabled Personalized Learning (TEPL) Summit, which was hosted by the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at NC State University in collaboration with Digital Promise, the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), and the Michigan Association of Intermediate School Administrators (MAISA)...more>>


    Smaller Districts Comprise the Majority of Market for Technology and Have Distinct Needs
    ... K-12 American education is transitioning from traditional textbook and teacher-driven instruction to digitally-delivered teaching, learning, and management of schools. Implementation of this transition is more difficult for districts with fewer than 7,000 students, making up 90% of U.S. school districts with 70% of the total student population, than it is for larger districts...more>>


    What Every Edtech Startup Should Sell: Classroom Solutions, Not Products
    One of the most common themes we heard during Challenge Festival throughout our education-related programming-from the daytime conference, to the startup pitches, to Keynote Night-was that education technology innovators often struggle with understanding the impact of their products with their actual end-users...more>>


    British Investor Buys Pearson's Family Education Network
    The British investment company Sandbox Partners has purchased Pearson's Family Education Network, an "edu-tainment" platform overseen by the behemoth education corporation...more>>


    Transitioning From Consumer to Education: Beyond Price and Packaging
    With industry reports indicating that investment in ed tech companies hit $1.87 billion in 2014, it's no surprise that many entrepreneurs and companies in the consumer sector are considering entering the education market or have already begun making inroads. What many of these business leaders quickly discern is that education is a unique industry and that it's critical to understand the differences between these markets to be successful...more>>


    Meaning of 'Online Courses' Is Shifting, Industry Survey Finds
    The ed-tech community for the first time primarily defines "online courses" as courses being delivered in a blended learning environment, rather than as long-distance education, according to a new study that will be released later this month...more>>


    LMS increasingly important in K-12 as schools go digital
    As schools become increasingly digital, the need for Learning Management Systems (LMS) becomes more evident. LMS programs centralize digital data and simplify the steps necessary to run a classroom, according to District Administration...more>>


    Pearson loses Texas testing account to ETS after 15-year relationship
    Texas has ended its 15-year relationship with test provider Pearson Education and entered a four-year, $280 million contract with New Jersey's Education Testing Services (ETS)...more>>


    The New Yorker: What Poverty Does to the Young Brain
    ...As it turns out, the conditions that attend poverty-what a National Scientific Council report summarized as "overcrowding, noise, substandard housing, separation from parent(s), exposure to violence, family turmoil," and other forms of extreme stress-can be toxic to the developing brain, just like drug or alcohol abuse...more>>


    Marketplace Learning Curve Exclusive survey: Parents weigh in on the digital classroom
    For the last year, Marketplace's LearningCurve team has been looking at the impact of technology on education. We've talked to students, teachers and ed-tech companies about the digital revolution taking hold in classrooms across the country...more>>


    Education Is Harmful When You Measure the Wrong Things
    Measure the wrong things and you'll get the wrong behaviors. This simple statement succinctly characterizes why the American education system continues beating its head against the wall...more>>


    FY2016 Ed Budget: States Take the Lead in Funding Growth
    What's the budget outlook for the next school year? It's too early for a definitive answer, but the tea leaves aren't that hard to read. Both Congress and the various state legislatures are working on their FY2016 budgets. The states are furthest along, since they need to have budgets in place by the end of June, with the majority of states' fiscal years starting on July 1...more>>


    Common-Core Testing Drives 'Tech Prep' Priorities
    As most states shift their required tests onto computers, teachers are discovering that their students are stumbling over an unexpected weakness: the keyboarding skills necessary to show what they know...more>>


    Forbes: The Only Metric That Matters in EdTech: Student Outcomes
    Education technology is getting a lot of attention these days. The Obama Administration proposed nearly $4 billion to help wire our schools. Meanwhile, more than $600 million in venture capital poured into ed tech last year - a 32% increase over the prior year...more>>


    K-12 Horizon Report sees BYOD in 20% of classrooms by year's end
    Big class tech changes are on their way according to the first preview of the K-12 Horizon Report, which forecasts trends in technology. After meeting with a panel of judges, New Media Consortium, which produces the report, creates a list of 18 trends and their challenges, developments, and time to adoption...more>>


    Some Schools Embrace Demands for Education Data
    In this small suburb outside Milwaukee, no one in the Menomonee Falls School District escapes the rigorous demands of data. Custodians monitor dirt under bathroom sinks, while the high school cafeteria supervisor tracks parent and student surveys of lunchroom food preferences...more>>


    Do kids today have too much homework?
    Not every child is overloaded, but homework remains a fraught topic in many homes. Here's why...more>>


    No Inequality Left Behind
    ...Attacking inequality is at the forefront of our national conversation, but in American education we are actually becoming more accepting of it as a fact of life. Perhaps nothing illustrates this better than the ongoing saga of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002, or NCLB...more>>


    USA Today's Toppo: Games charge students' imaginations
    Decried for decades by many as a form of media that will rot kids' brains, digital games have increasingly found support in education as a generation that grew up playing them and recognized their potential entered the workforce...more>>


    Survey: Impact of So-Called 'High Stakes' Tests Actually Low
    ...The Hechinger Report surveyed the District of Columbia and all 44 states* that have adopted the common core and will be administering a common-core-aligned test this spring to find out how they plan to use test scores. We found that very few states will be using this spring's scores for any student-related decisions. And the stakes for teachers are only slightly higher...more>>


    Just how widespread are digital state testing issues?
    FairTest's data shows 27 states reporting hiccups with digital exams since 2013...more>>


    The Soccer Mom Revolt Against Common Core
    The term "soccer mom"-political shorthand for the upscale suburban women President Clinton courted so successfully in the 1990s-may have fallen out of use with the Beltway set in more recent years, but this swing voting bloc is still around. Just ask Arne Duncan...more>>


    Envisioning the Future of Education

    Professor Paul Reville's Education Redesign Lab expands notions of schooling in order to serve all children...more>>


    AltSchool raises $100M from Mark Zuckerberg

    Mark Zuckerberg has invested $100 million to AltSchool, a network of brick and mortar schools aiming to revolutionize the way elementary and middle schools are run...more>>


    4 key digital learning developments

    Fifty-eight percent of high school students in a national survey said they use their own mobile devices for learning in school, and 47 percent of teachers in the survey reported that their students have regular access to mobile devices in their classrooms...more>>


    Forbes: 4 Fundamental Problems With Everything You Hear About The Future Of Education
    Education conferences are like church. Therefore, I must be devout. I attend at least one education conference a month...more>>


    Messer-Polis Data-Privacy Bill Endorsed by Educator Groups; Industry Wary
    In a surprising turnaround, new legislation that would significantly up the federal government's involvement in protecting student-data privacy was introduced in the U.S. House today with support from educator group...more>>


    Protecting student data in a digital world Proponents of data-enabled education can learn from other industries that have faced concerns about the risks of using personal information...more>>


    Leaders Gather to Chart Future for Games in Education
    With technology in classrooms more pervasive than ever, what's the future for games in education? To help decipher that riddle, game developers, public officials and education leaders gathered Tuesday for the Games for Learning Summit, a one-day event during the 12th annual Games for Change Festival...more>>


    Opt-out movement accelerates amid Common Core testing
    Thousands of students are opting out of new standardized tests aligned to the Common Core standards, defying the latest attempt by states to improve academic performance...more>>


    The Atlantic: Prioritizing the Arts Over Test Prep
    In an age when public education has become synonymous with high-stakes exams, an inner-city charter-school network is using culture and creative expression to teach the Common Core standards...more>>


    Beyond Education Wars

    For the last dozen years, waves of idealistic Americans have campaigned to reform and improve K-12 education. Armies of college graduates joined Teach for America. Zillionaires invested in charter schools...more>>


    An Education Agenda for the States

    Fostering Opportunity From Pre-K Through College, from the American Enterprise Institute...more>>


    The Atlantic: Digital Natives, Yet Strangers to the Web
    Today's schools are focusing on boosting kids' technological proficiency and warning them about the perils of the web. But something critical is missing from this education...more>>


    Are the Common Core tests turning out to be a big success or a resounding failure?
    Will the Common Core survive technical issues and the opt out movement?...more>>


    Teachers' Unions Fight Standardized Testing, and Find Diverse Allies
    In Florida, the teachers' union has lobbied to limit the use of standardized tests, and the governor last week signed a bill that limits the number of hours students can spend taking them...more>>


    Lean Startup: Why It Matters to K-12 Education

    The Lean Startup movement is a highly successful approach to building a company from the ground up. Its principles are founded in concepts that have been used to learn, to implement technology, and to improve the quality of a solution. In fact, everyone begins as a Lean Startup entrepreneur when learning to walk, so why don't more companies adopt this approach to implementing technological solutions?...more>>

     
    Higher Ed

    Forbes: In Defense of For-Profit Colleges

    Officials are unfairly aiming their crosshairs at for-profit institutions while applying weaker standards and greater accommodation with not-for-profit schools...more>>


    7 Highlights From Google's First Online Education Conference
    Those who missed Google Education on Air when it was streaming last week can catch all the sessions still...more>>


    Forbes: The Full-Stack Higher Education Company
    Nine-figure financings in education are rare. So a few weeks ago when AltSchool announced it had raised $75M in Series B financing from Founders Fund and Mark Zuckerberg's foundation, along with $25M in venture debt, for a total of $100M, the entire education private sector paid attention...more>>


    Lessons From a Competency-Based Education Experiment
    Paul LeBlanc, president of Southern New Hampshire University, has become a leading proponent of competency-based education, a way to award degrees based on testing and portfolios rather than "seat-time" in a traditional course...more>>


    Rolling Stone: What's Left After Higher Education Is Dismantled
    We're soon going to be left with no viable option for providing quality higher education to the masses...more>>


    Amid Fast Change, Group Seems Slow to Enhance Colleges' Control of Online Courses
    Last spring a group of university leaders announced a bold, new project intended to help colleges gain more control of their online course platforms, as they increasingly turned to providers like Coursera or edX. A year later some observers are wondering what the group has actually accomplished, and where the consortium is headed...more>>


    Truthout: The Student Loan Crisis and the Debtfare State
    Educational debt has become a ticking time bomb. With over $1 trillion in outstanding loan balances, the student loan industry has a lot in common with the sub-prime mortgage industry, which went into a devastating crisis in 2007-8...more>>


    Emerging Markets, Emerging Strategies
    The student body - and potential student body - for American higher education is changing in dramatic ways. No longer can colleges assume a steady supply of well-prepared high school graduates capable of enrolling and of paying. Likewise, no longer can colleges assume that employers will believe a college degree means that someone is ready for a job...more>>


    Dear Graduates: 'We Broke It, but You've Got to Fix It'
    Highlights from this year's commencement circuit included a story about the time Charles Lindbergh got lost, a rumination on the challenge of free speech, and a message all civilized graduates should heed: "Don't talk to me on a speakerphone." Here are excerpts, which have been edited and condensed...more>>


    Judge Upholds 'Gainful' Rule
    A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit that challenged the U.S. Department of Education's rewritten "gainful employment" rule, handing a victory to the Obama administration in its longstanding regulatory battle with for-profit colleges...more>>


    Seeking Alpha: Could Bridgepoint Be The Next For-Profit To Fold?
    Bridgepoint Education is one of the largest for-profit higher education institutions in the United States. It has also been alleged to violate fair marketing standards repeatedly...more>>


    Bullish on 2040
    Economists tend to be overly optimistic about growth and prosperity, while education experts tend toward unjustified pessimism. There's no question that more and more people are arguing that, even if American higher education has had a golden age, by 2040 it will be long gone...more>>


    $6.6B Higher Ed IT Market Booms With Tablets, Cloud Solutions
    A forecast of IT spending in 2015 sees millions of dollars being invested in new technologies...more>>


    2 Rivals in College-Application Industry Chart New Courses
    Just as applying to college is a rite of passage for millions of students each year, delivering all those applications to campuses is a big business. Now, as one admissions cycle gives way to another, the industry's two most-prominent operators are poised to move in new directions...more>>


    College Choice Report: High School Class of 2013
    The focus of this year's College Choice Report is students' selection of a college major or program of study among the ACT®-tested high school graduating class of 2013...more>>


    Fast Company: This is the Future of College
    It's not the death of higher education, but college as we've known it will be forced to undergo some dramatic changes in the next decade...more>>


    As Scrutiny Intensifies, For-Profit Colleges Face Threats on Several Fronts
    For anyone in the for-profit-college sector who was still dreaming that the spate of investigations into their institutions might amount to nothing, recent actions by the Department of Education and the Securities and Exchange Commission were a wake-up call...more>>


    Colleges Strive to Meet Demand for a More Hands-On Education
    Kendall A. Trammell has the kind of résumé employers would notice. The University of Georgia senior has worked at the college newspaper, completed an internship in Washington, and is now studying in Spain. Real-world opportunities like those are invaluable, she said. "That's what sets you apart from other people."...more>>


    Hacking higher ed: Will Minerva upend the college model?
    Imagine a college without classrooms, classes without lectures and dormitories moved to a different city in a different country every semester. For a select group of students, this is a typical day at a college that's also devoid of libraries and tenured professors...more>>


    Giant For-Profit Educator and Executives Are Charged With Lying to Investors
    ITT Educational Services Inc., its chief executive, and its chief financial officer have been charged with fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly hiding from investors "the poor performance and looming financial impact of two student-loan programs that ITT financially guaranteed," according to a news release from the commission...more>>


    In France, a Free Tech School Shakes Up Higher Education
    In the United States, Silicon Valley often symbolizes the outside forces disrupting traditional higher education. For the French, it's not a location or even a technology company, but a nonprofit school known simply as "42."...more>>


    Debt-Free Catches On
    After a concerted push over the past several months from liberals and progressive groups, Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign appears to be on the cusp of embracing a debt-free college plan...more>>


    The online paradox at community colleges
    Students more likely to fail online classes, but finish their degrees if they take them...more>>


    Brick by Brick
    "The Next Generation Digital Learning Environment: A Report on Research," released last month, advances Educause's initiative to examine how faculty members and students feel about their learning management systems and what they want from them in the future...more>>


    The Radio Shack Phenomenon and the Future of Private Independent Higher Education
    ...In an essay purportedly on the future of higher education, you might wonder what Radio Shack has to do with higher education. I am afraid -- an awful lot! If we view the higher education landscape, forces appear to be at work that parallel the Radio Shack demise...more>>


    Vanishing Profit, and Campuses
    The dramatic collapse of Corinthian Colleges isn't the only shake-up happening in for-profit higher education, as a broad swath of the sector is shutting down or selling off campuses after years of declining revenue and enrollment. On Wednesday two of the largest for-profit chains announced substantial cuts...more>>


    Fortune: Coursera CEO: Colleges will survive the online education revolution
    Rick Levin says that true disruption to higher education will take many years and largely affect commuter colleges not known for deep engagement between students and faculty...more>>


    Global Survey: Students Want a Bigger Focus on Career Outcomes
    For the second year in a row, a majority of students all around the world stated that they believe the primary purpose of education is to improve their employment prospects. In fact, they have some specific advice for the colleges and universities they attend: Foster an entrepreneurial atmosphere and teach soft skills...more>>


    How quickly will states get to zero in funding for higher education?
    Public colleges and universities are supposed to be affordable options for students seeking a degree, but years of state budget cuts have led to increased tuition that families are struggling to afford...more>>


    ECS: Reverse Transfer: The path less traveled, an ECS Education Trends Report
    Reverse transfer is a unique process for awarding associate degrees to students who have transferred in pursuit of a bachelor's degree before completing the requirements for an associate degree at a two-year institution...more>>


    UIUC, Coursera partner to offer iMBA, a $20,000 graduate degree
    Coursera and the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign College of Business on Monday announced the launch of the iMBA, the first open, fully online MBA program to be offered through the MOOC platform...more>>


    Stanford Prez Sees Distinct Role for Online Ed in Future
    The delivery of education in the vocational areas and continuing ed will predominately be done through online technologies, predicted the president of Stanford University...more>>


    College-Bound High Schoolers Finding Favor with Online Options
    College-bound high schoolers are showing more interest in the blended model of instruction and less interest in going for the all face-to-face approach. That finding surfaces in the latest edition of Eduventures' annual "College-Bound Market Update Report."...more>>


    A new kind of college ranking: The 10 universities that will increase your career earnings the most
    In a new report, titled "Beyond College Rankings," Brookings Fellow Jonathan Rothwell explores the "value-added" of 2- and 4-year colleges in the United States. Unlike many previous measures of college performance, Rothwell's "value-added" measure accounts for the difference in the expected economic success of alumni and the actual outcomes of graduates...more>>


    Universities seek alternatives to expensive textbooks
    When Christie Fierro, a communications instructor at Tacoma Community College in Washington State, saw students struggling in her eight-week communications class, she decided to ask them about it. "I discovered that only three of them could afford the textbook," she said...more>>


    Miami Herald: Politicians turn Florida into for-profit college paradise
    While other states have reined in unscrupulous for-profit colleges caught defrauding students, Florida has dismissed complaints and fueled the industry's growth...more>>


    Final 28 Corinthian Colleges to close
    Corinthian Colleges Inc. will close its remaining campuses in California, Arizona, New York, Hawaii, and Arizona, effective today, on the heels of fines levied against it by the U.S. Department of Education...more>>


    Tech Innovators 2015

    Meet this year's tech innovators - eight men and women who are helping to drive change through education technology (or, in one case, questioning that technology)...more>>


    Arizona State and edX Will Offer an Online Freshman Year, Open to All
    Arizona State University is joining with the MOOC provider edX in a project that it says "reimagines the freshman year" and opens a new low-cost, low-risk path to a college degree for students anywhere in the world...more>>


    Forbes: Report That Says Online Learning Growth Is Slowing Misses Big Picture
    For 12 years, the Babson Survey Group in partnership with other organizations, including the Online Learning Consortium (formerly the Sloan Consortium), has done critical research into the growth of online learning in American higher education that it publishes in the report Grade Level: Tracking Online Education in the United States...more>>


    Students want better digital credentials
    Innovation in online credentialing can help students better display learning outcomes and the value of their education to employers on social sites...more>>


    A Piece of the Online Pie
    The online "enabler" company Academic Partnerships plans to share tuition revenue with faculty members at partnering universities as the company prepares a major update of its online education platform...more>>


    Defining Educational Outcomes, Measuring Impact
    With the amount of hype surrounding efforts to improve education outcomes, it's easy to get the impression that the meaning of this term, "outcomes," is implicit. It is not. "Outcomes" may be one of the most elusive terms uttered in education circles today, seriously stalling efforts to propel this much needed imperative forward...more>>


    250 MOOCs and Counting: One Man's Educational Journey - The Digital Campus
    If the MOOC movement has faded, nobody told Jima Ngei. Mr. Ngei, who lives in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, has completed and passed 250 MOOCs, all through Coursera, since September 2012. His self-styled education has included courses in English common law and Chinese history, data science and Latin American culture, social epidemiology and the life of Thomas Jefferson, to name a few...more>>


    Jake Schwartz Offers Education Designed for the Job Market
    Jake Schwartz initially missed the on-ramp from college to a career. He describes the years after he graduated from Yale University, in 2000, as a series of often frustrating misadventures - he briefly managed a singer/songwriter, created a nonprofit performing-arts space, applied to law school, and ended up going to business school...more>>

     

     
    Et Alia

    How a $9 computer could change the way we think about computing
    For $9, you will soon be able to buy an insanely cheap computer the size of a credit card that runs Linux and comes with a 1 GHz processor, 512 MB RAM, 4 GB storage, and built-in WiFi and Bluetooth...more>>


    Corporations Go to College
    Are colleges and universities getting savvier about pitching their programs to the private sector, or are corporations increasingly turning to higher education to train their employees? The answer, according to workforce researchers, corporate education providers and companies themselves, is somewhere in the middle...more>>


    LinkedIn Will Buy Online-Learning Company for $1.5 Billion
    LinkedIn announced Thursday it has agreed to acquire the online-learning company lynda.com for $1.5 billion, The Wall Street Journal reports. It is the social-networking giant's largest acquisition to date, and signals its continued expansion into the education realm. lynda.com offers more than 2,900 courses online, which include video tutorials for various skills...more>>


    Venture Fund Zeroes in on University Startups
    A unique venture capital company that teams up with universities to invest in their most promising start-up companies recently closed a $215 million fund, the second one in the company's history. Osage University Partners, based near Philadelphia, invests only in startups that commercialize university research...more>>


    Why There Has Never Been a Better Time to Be an Education Entrepreneur
    Back when I taught high school, I was able to reach just 150 kids a day. But today at our education company, Learn Capital, I'm now seeing our portfolio reach 150 million viewers. That's a million times more reach through connected technology...more>>


    Competency-Based Education, IMS Initiatives
    Competency-based education seems to be gaining real traction in the higher ed space. Kaplan University is making a personalized Competency Report available to all 42,000 of its online students. The report provides ratings along a six point scale (No Progress, Introductory, Emergent, Practiced, Proficient, Mastery) of the skills and knowledge students demonstrated throughout their course of study...more>>


    Entrepreneur: The 7 Books Bill Gates Wants You to Read This Summer
    You don't become the world's richest man by wasting away the day binge-watching Netflix. You learn, you grow, you hustle. And you read, and a hell of a lot. Heavy reads, light reads, even breezy beach reads from time to time...more>>


    Scientific American: Don't Overthink It, Less Is More When It Comes to Creativity
    ...Researchers at Stanford University recently set out to explore the neural basis of creativity and came up with surprising findings. Their study, published May 28 inScientific Reports, suggests the cerebellum, the brain region typically associated with movement, is involved in creativity...more>>


    Fast Company: American Geniuses Steve Wozniak, Biz Stone and Bill Nye On Nurturing Innovation In Business
    The National Geographic Channel miniseries American Genius examines the great rivalries that lead to iconic American innovation and the ruthlessness in translating creativity to business...more>>


    PitchBook": 1Q 2015 Global PE & VC Benchmarking Report
    PitchBook has released its quarterly Global Private Equity and Venture Capital Benchmarking Report. Powered by data from the PitchBook Platform and sponsored by R.R. Donnelley, this report examines more than a decade of global PE and VC fund performance...more>>


    Politico: Class of 2015 faces grim job hunt
    The economy is getting better in Obama's seventh year. But not fast enough for college grads...more>>


    HBS Working Knowledge: Is the Time Right for Self-Management?
    Zappos.com is giving workers the authority to manage themselves, a program called "Holacracy." It's the latest attempt at introducing self-management, notes James Heskett, but will this effort win when so many others have failed? What do YOU think?...more>>


    Steve Case: Get ready, the Internet is about to change again. Here's how.
    The third wave of the Internet is about to break. The opportunity is now shifting to integrating it into everyday life, in increasingly seamless and ubiquitous ways...more>>


    Data Breaches in Education Sector Are Costly, Study Finds
    Data breaches are costing companies in education up to $300 per compromised record, making it the second most impacted sector-behind only healthcare-for businesses with lost or stolen records globally, according to research released Wednesday by the Ponemon Institute...more>>


    Fortune: Cloud education tech claims larger role in "hire learning"
    Venture funding for cyberlearning neared $2 billion last year, as more providers reach behind classrooms to rethink corporate training...more>>


    6 key takeaways from Mary Meeker's must-read report on Internet trends
    Mary Meeker, a venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, released her annual report on Internet trends Wednesday. All 197 slides are worth your time. But here are a few of the most noteworthy points...more>>


    Fast Company: What Kind Of Leadership Is Needed In Flat Hierarchies?
    Workplace hierarchies have undergone some dramatic shifts over the last 100 years, but not titles? That's going to take a bigger adjustment...more>>


    HBR: How to Get Employees Excited to Do Their Work
    ...The challenge is how to shift someone's response from "I have to" to "I want to." After pulling together the tips we've shared with thousands of leaders from Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, and startups, we developed what we call the Communicator's Roadmap...more>>


    How Aging Millennials Will Affect Technology Consumption
    As the biggest generation in America begins to hit life milestones, it's not all good news for tech industry...more>>


    The Economist: How to join the 1%
    A book on the persistence of elites is an unexpected guide to getting a good job...more>>


    When Emotional Intelligence Goes Wrong
    "People skills" are almost always assumed to be a good thing. Search employment ads and you will find them listed as a qualification for a startling array of jobs, including Applebee's host, weight-loss specialist, CEO, shoe salesperson, and (no joke) animal-care coordinator...more>>


    Students, Teachers Don't Study The Way Science Says They Should
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    Millennials want a work-life balance. Their bosses just don't get why.
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