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Todd Hand: Five Things Private Equity Firms Should Consider When Their Portfolio Companies Hire C-Suite Executives The vast majority of my clients for C-level searches are at a private equity backed companies in the education sectors (K-12, higher ed, and corporate learning). While private equity partners are some of the most networked people you'll ever meet, it is not possible to know every star, especially the rising ones. Moreover, private equity partners are often investing outside their "sweet spot" of knowledge and networks; this is one reason why they prefer to work with a search firm. Hiring the best executive can make all the difference to the portfolio company, and eventually getting the best ROI. Our team at BSG Team Ventures has conducted over 200 executive searches for private equity firms and their portfolio organizations. In my experience, these are five often overlooked but essential considerations when companies in their portfolios search for executives...more>> |
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New Year Recollections and Predictions: EdSurge: What Could $4 Billion Do for American Education? Every January, it's customary to make resolutions and predictions for the new year. This year, I want to go all out and make a prediction not just for the next year, but for the next decade...more>> District Administration: K12 school leaders forecast top 2017 trends "The way high schools are currently designed-both with architecture and teaching and learning-needs to be revisioned in all high schools, not just those considered innovative."...more>> eSchool News: 15 hot edtech trends for 2017 Educators and tech leaders look back on 2016; predict where edtech trends in teaching and learning will head this new year...more>> Edutopia: 5-Minute Film Festival: The Best Education Parodies of 2016 Need a good laugh? Here are five of the best parody videos we saw this year...more>> EdWeek: Top 10 Stories in the K-12 Marketplace in 2016 What was "hot" in our Marketplace K-12 blog for 2016?...more>> EdWeek: K-12 Dealmaking: Stand-Out Deals and Dealmakers of 2016 As 2016 comes to a close, we're highlighting some of the noteworthy deals in the ed-tech sector this year...more>> District Administration: Top K12 stories of 2016 Schools tackled crowdfunding, heroin abuse, transgender issues and more...more>> EdSurge: Learning As We Go: Looking Back on the EdSurge 2016 'State of Edtech' Report Capturing a picture of education is a bit like looking through a kaleidoscope, with each group that comes to education bringing its own point of view on how teaching and learning has and should evolve...more>> EdWeek: Ed-Tech Research That Mattered in 2016 Among the most-read, most-shared stories on Digital Education in 2016 were those that delved into high-quality research. That likely reflects a growing hunger within the K-12 sector for reliable information about education technology, in all its promise and its peril...more>> Washington Post: A teacher makes eight education predictions for 2017 - some of them dire Every year, veteran teacher Larry Ferlazzo makes an annual list of education predictions - and here are eight for 2017...more>> Education World: A Look Back at the Top 10 Education Stories of 2016 As 2016 comes to a close, Education World takes a look at the top ten most memorable education stories of the year...more>> District Administration: Outlook 2017: Experts forecast the future of K12 Thought leaders weigh in on a wide range of topics affecting K12 education...more>> Post-election Speculation: Washington Post: Yes, Bill Gates really compared Donald Trump to JFK - and said Trump could help education Bill Gates, the world's biggest-spending philanthropist, poured so much private money into pet education reform projects that he helped drive the public education policy agenda...more>> Politico: What New Orleans Can Teach DeVos About Charters The lesson of the city's success is that accountability works. But the education nominee prefers a hands-off approach when schools are failing...more>> WSJ: Trump Education Pick Betsy DeVos's Charter-School Mission Comes Under Spotlight Betsy DeVos has made fostering charter schools in Michigan her mission, using her wealth and sheer force of will to help create schools that now educate more than half of public-school students in Detroit...more>> EdWeek: The Obama Administration's Imprint on K-12 Policy: A Roundup Policy Push: A $4 billion grant competition created through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 may be President Obama's highest-profile K-12 policy initiative...more>> LA Times: Forget charter schools and vouchers - here are five business ideas school reformers should adopt Donald Trump never tires of reminding us that he is a businessman, and in Betsy DeVos, he has nominated a secretary of Education who endorses a business model for improving elementary and secondary schooling. The problem is, it's the wrong model...more>> Investor's Business Daily: Power, Control And Change In K-12 Education Twenty-five years after Minnesota passed the nation's first charter school law in 1991, nearly 7,000 of these independently operated public schools of choice exist in forty-three states and the District of Columbia, enrolling nearly three million students...more>> Time: Education Is Not a Marketplace You Can Game With Vouchers by John Katzman, founder and CEO of The Noodle Companies, as well as the founder and former CEO of The Princeton Review and 2U...First, the system needs more subtlety, and parents need better information...more>> Fordham: ESSA accountability should be like water: Weighty, transparent, and fluid In education reform's post-election landscape, long-dormant fault lines have slipped, opening huge chasms of belief as former allies run to their respective partisan or issue-based corners...more>> e-Literate: Chan/Zuckerberg: The "Tech" is not the Hard Part in "Ed Tech" Phil and I were recently interviewed by KQED's Sarah Tan for a story about the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's Summit platform...more>> Edweek: Obama's Legacy on K-12 One of Bold Achievements, Fierce Blowback President Barack Obama entered the White House in 2009 amid the wreckage of the Great Recession and with education high on his list of domestic priorities...more>> EdWeek: Donald Trump and K-12 Education: Five Things to Watch in 2017 he presidential transition means an especially busy start to the year. President-elect Donald Trump may not have talked much about education on the campaign trail, but the first part of the year will tell us a lot about the direction he wants to go and how much of a priority he places on the issue...more>> CATO Institute: NYT Misleads About School Choice Yet Again Once again, the editors at the New York Times have allowed their bias against school choice to get in the way of reporting facts...more>> NYT: Free Market for Education? Economists Generally Don't Buy It The odds are good that privatizing education will be part of the agenda for President-elect Donald J. Trump's administration...more>> Washington Post: How Indiana's school voucher program soared, and what it says about education in the Trump era Indiana lawmakers originally promoted the state's school voucher program as a way to make good on America's promise of equal opportunity, offering children from poor and lower-middle-class families an escape from public schools that failed to meet their needs...more>> EdWeek: What's Ahead for Pre-K-12 Policy Post-Election? (Event Videos) 2017 will be an interesting year for public education. In addition to the Every Student Succeeds Act going into effect, a new political administration will be taking office...more>> EdDive: Could after-school programs take a hit under the Trump administration? Andre Perry, a former dean and charter school network CEO, says President-elect Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Education nominee Betsy DeVos have been quiet on funding for after-school programs so far, but he believes providers should be part of the coming conversation...more>> District Administration: The elephant in the room: Trump education policy Future presidential policies for K12 likely to shift to more choice...more>> EdWeek: For Ed-Tech CEO, Trump Era Presents Many-Sided Threat Ayah Bdeir is an immigrant, a Muslim, a woman, and a tech entrepreneur. Her company, littleBits, has an unusually diverse workforce...more>> NYT: Betsy DeVos and God's Plan for Schools At the rightmost edge of the Christian conservative movement, there are those who dream of turning the United States into a Christian republic subject to "biblical laws."...more>> EdWeek: Why Michigan Doesn't Have School Vouchers and Probably Never Will With President-elect Donald Trump's selection of Michigan billionaire Betsy DeVos to head up the U.S. Department of Education in his administration, there's been a lot of focus on school choice in Michigan...more>> Washington Post: A sobering look at what Betsy DeVos did to education in Michigan - and what she might do as secretary of education The people who best know the education advocacy work of Betsy DeVos, the billionaire tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to be his education secretary, are in Michigan, where she has been involved in reform for decades...more>> More K-12: TechCrunch: The broken edtech ecosystem investors once avoided is changing ...The broken ecosystem of selling to schools educational software rather than the actual technology is what often consigns many edtech ventures to the dustbin...more>> EdSurge: Curriculum Associates to Be Owned by Iowa State University-For Now When one of today's hottest edtech companies was founded, Intel Corp., the kingpin of computer chip companies, was barely a year old, and the microprocessor had not yet been invented...more>> Results in from MDR's Annual Technology Survey Good News: District technology directors generally have a positive outlook on their 2016-2017 budgets! Instructional technology spending will stay the same or increase across: hardware, software, technology training, and technology support...more>> eSchool News: In the marketplace: Schools expect digital learning budgets to increase Don't miss this recap of the latest technology product news, reports, and research...more>> MDR: EDmarket Releases New Study on EDtech Distribution The Education Market Association (EDmarket) released of a newly-published study, EDtech Distribution in an Evolving Marketplace, featuring data gathered from interviews with key industry leaders conducted by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education...more>> eSchool News: iPads ignite furor in schools In the shadow of Apple Computer's 1 Infinite Loop headquarters, an initiative requiring public middle schoolers to use iPads in class and at home has spawned a growing battle over education in the digital age...more>> NPR: School Graduation Rates Are Deceiving. Here Are 7 Things That Would Help Once again this year, President Obama hailed the nation's high school graduation rate as it reached another record high - a whopping 83 percent...more>> Hechinger: How Finland's youngest learners obey the rules - by fooling around in school Master teacher reveals secrets of the world's best education system...more>> eSchool News: 5 ed-tech highlights from CES 2015 The annual International Consumer Electronics Show, better known as CES, is the showcase for newer technologies already in the marketplace and those soon to debut...more>> EdDive: King details Obama administration legacy in exit memo In an exit memo in the final weeks of the Obama administration, outgoing U.S. Secretary of Education John King Jr., discusses the promise of education, progress made over the last eight years and what needs to be done moving forward...more>> The Atlantic: From Diversity to Desk Chairs: This Week's Top 7 Education Stories The best recent writing about school...more>> Edweek: Pearson Releases Rights to its Learning Design Principles As part of a company-wide push for transparency in evaluating the efficacy of their products, executives at a major education corporation have publicly released the learning design principles that inform the creation of those educational products...more>> GlobeNewswire: Driving Edtech Industry Growth, LearnLaunch Adds Seasoned Investment Staff; Announces Five New Companies to Accelerator Breakthrough Program Three New Venture Partners Join Accelerator Investment Committee, Signaling Strong Market Activity and Interest...more>> eSchool News: Results of the 2016 National Digital Curriculum Strategy Survey 86 percent of schools expect to spend more on digital curriculum in 2017...more>> EdWeek: Hard Listening as States Seek Public's Voice in ESSA Plans Those with a stake in their local schools watch closely to see if their views are being taken seriously as the new law goes into effect...more>> EdWeek: Funding Twists, Tight Budgets Loom for States at ESSA's Debut Though it's not a spending measure, there are important new fiscal elements to the revised K-12 statute...more>> EdWeek: Pre-K-12 Education Companies' Status Falls on 2016 Inc. 5000 List In 2016, the number of pre-K-12 education-focused companies notching a place on the Inc. 5000 list fell sharply from last year, as did the combined revenues of those businesses...more>> EdWeek: Quality Counts 2017: State Highlights Reports The Quality Counts 2017 Highlights Reports capture the key data you need to assess your state's performance. Snapshots from each state's report can be accessed using the drop-down menu below...more>> EdWeek: Tricky Balance in Shifting from ESSA Blueprint to K-12 Reality One year ago, President Barack Obama and longtime education leaders in Congress burst through years of deadlock to pass the Every Student Succeeds Act, the first update to the nation's main K-12 law in over a decade...more>> EdWeek: School Choice, Explained (Video) Charter schools. Vouchers. Tax-credit scholarships. Education savings accounts. What are these things and how do they relate to school choice?...more>> EdSurge: What Does a 'Modern Classroom' Look Like-and What Should Educators Leave Behind? The classroom. Since the 1950s, the setup of your average second, sixth or tenth grade classroom hasn't changed all that much...more>> EdWeek: Founder of Adaptive Learning Company Knewton to Leave CEO Position The chief executive officer of adaptive learning products-provider Knewton has announced he will step down after founding the global company eight years ago...more>> Forbes: How This Teacher Disrupted Education With The Mathnasium Model Of Teaching ...Ranked #3 on Forbes list of Best and Worst Franchises to Buy in 2016 for investment under $150,000, the Mathnasium franchise model has enjoyed success since it launched in 2002...more>> Bloomberg: Are China's Schools Failing? It had become something of a ritual. Every three years, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development would release the results of its PISA exams, which are given to hundreds of thousands of students in dozens of countries...more>> OECD: PISA 2015: Full selection of indicators The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA, assesses the extent to which 15-year-old students, near the end of their compulsory education, have acquired key knowledge and skills that are essential for full participation in modern societies...more>> EdWeek: Companies Face Growing Demands Around Digital Accessibility Legal Action Has Raised the Stakes for Vendors Who Ignore or Overlook the Issue...more>> MindShift: What Can We Learn From Countries That Effectively Teach Math? How math is taught in the United States and how our students perform on international math tests continue to be areas of intense debate...more>> Washington Post: Virtual school operator K12 Inc. faces challenge from stockholders demanding transparency Virginia-based K12 Inc. is the largest operator of for-profit charter schools in the country and is a national leader in running online full-time public schools in numerous states...more>> District Administration: Schools ride the next edtech wave K12 sees effectiveness and efficiency increase with automatic grading, automated buildings...more>> EdDive: Should school districts play a larger role in birth-to-5 programs? New research finds a 13% return on investment to high-quality birth-to-5 childcare programs...more>> EdSource: Early childhood education pays big dividends, study says Providing poor children with high-quality early childhood education - from birth through age 5 - results in adults who are healthier, earning higher incomes and less involved in crime, according to a new study that followed participants for 35 years...more>> NPR: How Investing In Preschool Beats The Stock Market, Hands Down If you got 13 percent back on your investments every year, you'd be pretty happy, right? Remember, the S&P 500, historically, has averaged about 7 percent when adjusted for inflation...more>> NYT: It Turns Out Spending More Probably Does Improve Education For many years, research on the relationship between spending and student learning has been surprisingly inconclusive. Many other factors, including student poverty, parental education and the way schools are organized, contribute to educational results...more>> EdWeek: Chromebooks Thriving in U.S. K-12, but Is Microsoft Poised for Global Growth? A new analysis of the school market for digital devices and operating systems finds that demand for Google Chromebooks is continuing to climb in the United States, as district officials are drawn to those products' low cost and simplicity of use...more>> US Dept of Ed: Education Department Releases Final Regulations to Promote a High-Quality, Well-Rounded Education and Support All Students After considering and incorporating extensive feedback from stakeholders across the education system and the public, the U.S. Department of Education today announced final regulations to implement the accountability, data reporting, and state plan provisions of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)...more>> |
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New Year Recollections and Predictions: Educause: Top 10 IT Issues, 2016: Divest, Reinvest, and Differentiate In 2016, higher education IT organizations are divesting themselves of technologies that can be sourced elsewhere and of practices that have become inefficient and are reinvesting to develop the necessary capabilities and resources to use information technology to achieve competitive institutional differentiation in student success, affordability, and teaching and research excellence...more>> U.S. News: 5 Online Education Trends to Watch in 2017 Experts predict more online programs will offer alternative credentials and degrees in specialized fields...more>> Eduventures: Predictions 2017: Trump, MOOCs, Billionaires, ACICS, and a Third For-Profit Collapse Standing on the edge of 2017, ahead of a Trump presidency that even 12 months ago hardly anyone predicted, means both that change is coming and direction is far from certain...more>> Getting Smart: Top Higher Education Learning Trends to Look For in 2017 Learning trends in higher education this year may have a common goal: combating the decline in student enrollment...more>> EdDive: Best of 2016: Top stories in higher ed over the past year If 2015 was the year of protests and campus unrest in higher ed, 2016 may go down as the year of uncertainty. The most-read stories on Education Dive this year reflect an acute interest in - and maybe even concern over - what comes next for the industry...more>> The EvoLLLution's 2016 Year in Review eBook Download...more>> Educause: Top 10 Higher Ed Posts of 2016 Looking back at 2016, the Transforming Higher Ed blog has covered a lot of ground - and that's just in its inaugural year...more>> Chronicle: Top Reads of 2016 Over the past year, The Chronicle Review has published more than 200 essays, book reviews, and articles, written by professors, administrators, grad students, journalists, and one inmate at the Attica Correctional Facility...more>> Chronicle: Most Popular Stories of 2016 Whether you regard 2016 as a kidney stone of a year, an annus mirabilis of champagne and caviar, or something in between, your tireless scribes at The Chronicle have been there to record it all and bring you insights into what it all means...more>> Career Education Review: 2016 Proprietary Higher Education Review: "Have you Tried Rebooting?" "Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order Shall Return." - Suzie Wagner I don't know who Suzie Wagner is, but her quote may just accurately describe the transition from 2016 to 2017 and beyond for the proprietary higher education sector...more>> edtech digest: Trends | 2016 Digital Study Trends Survey As the class of 2020 starts its freshman year of college, students are increasingly looking to get maximum value out of their higher education experience...more>> EdDive: The 2016 Dive Awards for higher education After months of research, we've narrowed down the year's top administrator, institution, startup and more...more>> Post-election Speculation: Seeking Alpha: For-Profit Education Stocks Will Surge Under Trump Beholden to traditional universities and generally hostile to for-profit education companies, the Obama administration hurt for-profit universities with a series of strict regulations and enforcement actions...more>> Inside Higher Ed: Historians in the Age of Trump Scholars debate what his election means, whether efforts to band together as a discipline to oppose him were wrong and what the future may hold for their field...more>> Chronicle: Donald Trump and Higher Ed Read more about Donald Trump's candidacy and how he relates to academe in this collection of Chronicle articles and essays...more>> Washington Post: What U.S. higher education can learn from Canada: Bigger schools can be the best The recent presidential election has spurred plenty of comparisons of how U.S. public policy stacks up against our neighbors to the north, from health care to gun control. Perhaps we should add higher education to that list...more>> EdDive: Trump election spurs American interest in Canadian colleges The Associated Press reports American student interest in Canadian colleges and universities has spiked in the last two months, coinciding with the November election and pending inauguration of Donald Trump....more>> Chronicle: What's In and What's Out for Colleges as Trump Takes Office ...Besides naming Betsy DeVos as his nominee for secretary of education, Mr. Trump has said nothing publicly about his education-policy plans since the election, and the Trump transition team has been close-mouthed about its activities and intentions related to colleges...more>> More Higher Ed: EdDive: Nearly 200 for-profit colleges almost 100% federally funded New research from the Brookings Institute reveals the number of for-profit institutions drawing more than 80% of revenues from U.S. Department of Education student loans has decreased, falling from 38% of schools in 2011-12 to 29% in 2014-15...more>> Atlantic: Dozens of For-Profit Colleges Could Soon Close A new study offers a look at what happens when schools shutter...more>> NPR: The Higher Ed Learning Revolution: Tracking Each Student's Every Move On campuses today almost every educational interaction leaves digital traces. Assignments and feedback are given through online portals; debates and discussions happen via learning management systems as well as in classrooms, cafes and dorm rooms...more>> EdDive: Report: Some for-profit students outperform peers from traditional institutions A new report issued by the Council for Aid to Education suggests that proprietary, or for-profit, institutions are as proficient at preparing students as their nonprofit counterparts...more>> Inside Higher Ed: ACICS-Accredited Colleges Meet Federal Deadline The U.S. Department of Education last month finalized its decision to terminate the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, a controversial national accrediting agency that oversaw Corinthian Colleges, ITT and other failed for-profits...more>> WSJ: Obama Administration Takes Aim at Some For-Profit Colleges The Obama administration identified hundreds of for-profit college programs Monday that are in danger of closing due to new rules designed to punish schools that leave students with high levels of debt, but weak job prospects...more>> The EvoLLLution: Think Tank to Shark Tank: Universities and the Entrepreneur Economy The incubation role is a new one for universities, but given the need to prepare students for a new kind of labor market and the value successful graduates bring to an institution, the promise of this model is significant...more>> Quartz: It takes until age 34 to earn back the cost of a US university degree One of the biggest dilemmas of the modern age is thus: Is a college degree worth it? 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And also no...more>> PR Web: Beyond Grades: New Partnership Enables Colleges and Universities to Create and Award Digital Badges that Recognize Skills and Competencies Digital credential pioneer Credly, in partnership with Canvas, the learning management system (LMS) by Instructure, today announced the launch of a powerful new application that enables education providers to award digital badges to students as they master critical skills or competencies within courses or training programs...more>> Chronicle: Over 800 Programs Fail Education Dept.'s Gainful-Employment Rule More than 800 programs failed the U.S. Department of Education's accountability standards for its new gainful-employment rule, and risk losing federal student-aid funds, the department announced on Monday, and about 98 percent of those programs were offered by for-profit institutions...more>> US Dept of Ed: Education Department Releases Final Debt-to-Earnings Rates for Gainful Employment Programs The U.S. Department of Education today released the first debt-to-earnings (D/E) rates for career training programs as required by the landmark Gainful Employment (GE) regulations...more>> CECU Statement on the Release of Gainful Employment Rates Following the U.S. Department of Education's release of gainful employment rates, CECU president and CEO Steve Gunderson released the following statement...more>> Inside Higher Ed: Preparing Graduates for Future Knowledge Practices I was in several meetings last month with groups of higher education Vice-Presidents with oversight for teaching and learning, where the topics of discussion included the increasingly dynamic knowledge environment which our graduates are facing...more>> NYT: Text Your Way to College Every year, hundreds of thousands of high school seniors make bad choices about where - or whether - to go to college. Some who would excel at top-ranked institutions opt for second-tier institutions...more>> WSJ: Free tuition Q&A: Could New York's plan spread across US? Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal to make the state's public colleges free for hundreds of thousands of middle-class students is seen as one of the nation's most ambitious efforts to tackle skyrocketing higher education debt...more>> Norman Transcript: Initiative aims to expand postsecondary education Gov. Mary Fallin recently announced a new initiative focused on post-secondary education and training for Oklahomans to meet the state's growing demand for a skilled labor force...more>> WSJ: The M.B.A. Classroom That Knows When You're Bored In a business school classroom in Spain, a computer alerts the professor that one of her students is losing interest...more>> Boston Globe: Programs smooth college path for foreign students Like many Chinese students, Snowy Chen had no intention of going to college in China. She dreams of working at a fashion magazine, Vogue maybe, so she set her sights on the United States...more>> EdTech: 4 Ways Higher Ed Can Prepare for a Fully Connected Future IT leaders should take action now to ready their institutions for expected growth in the Internet of Things...more>> Campus Technology: Scaling Up With Adaptive Learning Two universities share how they are using adaptive courseware to increase retention and graduation rates - and the challenges they have run into along the way...more>> The PIE News: Laureate Education raises $383m, forges ahead with IPO plans Global higher education giant Laureate Education has announced plans to raise $383m through selling stock to a group of investors ahead of a planned initial public offering...more>> Forbes: The iTunes Model For Education And Re-Thinking How We Pay For College There is a difference between a cost and an investment...more>> EdDive: Once thought to be a fad, MOOCs showed staying power in 2016 EdSurge profiles the growth of massive online open courses in 2016, which attracted more than 58 million students in over 700 colleges and universities last year...more>> New York Post: Obama's pal catches major break in for-profit college deal A close pal of President Obama will be able to buy the for-profit parent of the University of Phoenix after federal regulators cut him and other buyers a major break, The Post has learned...more>> PR Newswire: Conversion Rates Up for Online Higher Education Programs Although conversion rates were flat across all program types between Q2 2016 and Q3 2016, the conversion rate for online programs spiked in Q3 2016 to 8.8% according to the Sparkroom Q3 2016 Higher Education Inquiry Generation Review...more>> Chronicle: Clearing the Path for Transfer Students Leaving Washington State University might have been the best thing to ever happen to Aldo Barletta...more>> PC Mag: How Broken Is College, and Can We Fix it? There are two stories we can tell about US higher education. In the first, public two- and four-year colleges face increasing student service costs, 20 percent less state support than they received before the recession, and a shortfall they pass onto students, who now graduate with an average of $30,000 of debt...more>> NYT: A Peek Inside the Strange World of Fake Academia The caller ID on my office telephone said the number was from Las Vegas, but when I picked up the receiver I heard what sounded like a busy overseas call center in the background...more>> Hindustan Times: Online learning grows 50% in 2016; tech, English take lead Online learning grew by 50 per cent in India this year, and technology and English were the most sought-after skills, says a report...more>> The Monitor: Department of Education issues final regulation for postsecondary distance learning courses The U.S. Department of Education released its final ruling on distance learning regulations that higher education institutions must comply with in order to offer financial aid to students taking such courses...more>> Hechinger: Why are colleges and universities handing over more than half of their tuition to online program managers? In three years, no one will be able to explain why it was that colleges and universities continued to hand more than half of their tuition to companies marketing and supporting their online programs - the online program managers...more>> WSJ: States Aim to Lure College Dropouts Back to School Programs offer incentives to adults without a degree to boost number of graduates, local economies...more>> The Hill: How to fix the Department of Education's $100 billion 'miscalculation' The U.S. Department of Education just got sent to the principal's office. According to a troubling report recently released by the Government Accounting Office (GAO), the department failed to account for over $100 billion in write-offs...more>> edtech digest: Death of the Textbook, Really For nearly two decades, industry commentators have heralded the impending death of the physical textbook...more>> Chronicle: 50 Years of College Students Like the nation overall, not-for-profit, baccalaureate-granting colleges have become considerably more diverse in the past 50 years...more>> WSJ: College Enrollment Drops 1.4% as Adults Head Back to Work Push to get more people into school hits headwind of fewer high-school grads...more>> EdDive: Measuring AI's impact on education and the job market The BBC profiles the increasing presence of artificial intelligence in higher education, with institutions like Georgia Tech pioneering developments in technology which can answer and ask students questions within a curriculum spectrum...more>> WSJ: Yellen: Globalization Makes Higher Education Increasingly Important Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen defended the value of higher education as a protection against the pressures of technological change and globalization...more>> Fast Company: These Universities Are Training The World's Top Coders HackerRank tapped over 120 top universities around the world and had each of their best coders go head-to-head...more>> Innovate+Educate: Shift Happens The shift to competency-based learning and hiring is here to stay. And it has been inevitable for some time. About a year ago, Whiteboard Advisors and Innovate+Educate started talking about how to frame this shift...more>> NYT: DeVry University Will Pay $100 Million for Students' Loans and Tuition DeVry University, a for-profit school that offers courses online and at dozens of locations nationwide, has agreed to a $100 million settlement of a federal lawsuit alleging that it falsely advertised the success of its graduates, the Federal Trade Commission announced on Thursday...more>> Atlantic: Colleges Really Need to Rethink the Career Advice They Deliver A new report suggests most graduates don't find the current offerings very helpful...more>> The Atlantic: Where Students Get Two Years of College in High School for Free A small private school in western Massachusetts has launched a network of tuition-free early colleges across the country...more>> Gallup-Purdue Index Report 2016 Learn what more than 11,000 U.S. college graduates have to say about the value of career services, mentorship and whether their alma mater was a good place for various minority groups to study...more>> Fast Company: The American Dream Is Under Threat. Can Higher Education Save It? A coalition of elite universities wants to increase economic mobility by enrolling more lower-income students...more>> Campus Technology: Coming of Age: The Online Research Data Repository ...Research data repositories enable academic researchers to access, cite, and share data for a particular project - not just the final paper or project summary, but the actual data and paratextual material associated with it...more>> Forbes: Higher Education Is Failing Older Americans A new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center bears a bit of good news: college graduation rates are up...more>> Ed Dive: Higher ed seeking new ways to spur interest and access to workforce development Online career support company Sokanu recently surveyed nearly 22,000 college graduates to find answers to one of higher education's most pressing questions: can you earn a degree in a field that you love and make money doing it?...more>> EdTech: Students Want Their Personal Data to be Used to Improve the College Experience, Survey Says Higher ed students believe universities can improve in the next 10 years by tracking their information...more>> Inside Track: Ten Ways Technology and Behavioral Science are Shaping the Future of Student Support Ben Castleman, author of "The 160-Character Solution: How Text Messaging and Other Behavioral Strategies Can Improve Education," visited InsideTrack to present on his area of expertise...more>> Career Education Review: U.S. Department of Education's September 2016 Audit Guide Key Changes When the expression "all good things come to those who wait" was first used it probably didn't have the student financial program regulations in mind...more>> |
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New Year Recollections and Predictions: EdSurge: Ka'Ching! 2016 US Edtech Funding Totals $1 Billion Santa proved a little more parsimonious to U.S. edtech companies, which altogether raised an estimated $1.03 billion across 138 venture deals in 2016...more>> Getting Smart: 2016 #YearInReview and Predictions for 2017 The events of this year forced many of us to think differently about the world we live in-it required a full mental model revision. What's going on? The global confluence of urbanization, globalization and automation is resulting in more and more unexpected shocks (so-called black swan events) in politics, economics and ecosystems...more>> Top Education Stories of 2016: Education Week's Most Viewed To provide a sense of what was high on our readers' priority lists in 2016, the editors at Education Week compiled a list of our 10 most-viewed news articles and blog posts...more>> Atlantic: 5 Numbers That Explain Education in 2016 From record-high graduation rates to the percentage of students who attend charters, here are some figures that help tell the story of U.S. schools over the last year...more>> Atlantic: Sixteen in '16: Our Favorite Education Stories Take a stroll down memory lane, a scroll through some #TBTs, or whatever the school kids are calling a throwback these days. Here are our favorite education stories The Atlantic published this year...more>> SHRM: What to Expect from the Labor Market in 2017 The number of HR manager positions will increase this year by 1,100 in California-the highest volume in the nation-and by 8.6 percent in Nevada, the largest percentage increase among the 50 states and Washington, D.C...more>> NPR: 5 Education Stories To Watch In 2017 Every year for the past few years, I've dusted off my crystal ball and offered a few predictions for the new year. Back on Nov. 9 though, I threw out the ones I had been working on and started over...more>> The Atlantic: Sixteen in '16: Our Favorite Education Stories Take a stroll down memory lane, a scroll through some #TBTs, or whatever the school kids are calling a throwback these days. Here are our favorite education stories The Atlantic published this year...more>> EdSurge: The Stories That Shaped Edtech in 2016 Every year has its fair share of surprises, but this seems especially true for 2016. Yet even the startles and shockwaves that have greeted us so far offer us a moment to reminisce, to reflect and most of all, to learn...more>> Simba Press Release: Change Is in the Air for the U.S. PreK-12 and Higher Education Markets in 2017 Whether expressed as anticipation or anxiety, a sensation of change is percolating through the U.S. PreK-12 and higher education segments and in the instructional materials industry that serves the education market...more>> EdSurge: Rethinking Credentials: The Power of Soft Skills, By Anant Agarwal Editor's Note: 'Tis the season of giving, eating and reflecting, a time to look back on 2016 and to make bold predictions about what next year may hold. In our fourth year-end personal statement roundup, we've again asked thought leaders to share their outlooks on education, but with a twist...more>> EdSurge: What's Happened in Education Eight years ago, not only was the US economy in meltdown but the American public education system looked pretty wobbly, too...more>> EdSurge: Forbes '30 Under 30' Education Leaders to Learn >From in 2017 It's no small feat making Forbes "30 Under 30" roundup, which in 2017 boasts an acceptance rate of less than 4 percent...more>> NPR: 5 Education Stories To Watch In 2017 Prediction No. 1: Donald Trump's focus on school choice, vouchers and his overall ambivalence about the federal role in education will complicate matters for ESSA (the Every Student Succeeds Act)...more>> PC Mag: The Best of CES 2017 Among the countless gadgets and technologies at CES this year, these 23 matter the most...more>> Simba Press Release: Change Is in the Air for the U.S. PreK-12 and Higher Education Markets in 2017 Whether expressed as anticipation or anxiety, a sensation of change is percolating through the U.S. PreK-12 and higher education segments and in the instructional materials industry that serves the education market...more>> Post-election Speculation: Atlantic: Five Cabinet Nominees Who Could Affect Education The U.S. Department of Education is not the only office with power over student-related policy...more>> Chronicle: What if a President Really Did Shut Down the Dept. of Education? For several decades the Department of Education has been a popular target for Republican political candidates eager to slash the size of the federal government. Among the recent champions of doing away with the department, or at least gutting it, is Donald J. Trump...more>> Washington Post: Mitt Romney: Trump has made a smart choice for education secretary The nomination of Betsy DeVos for secretary of education has reignited the age-old battle over education policy...more>> EdWeek: Ten Questions Senators Could Ask Education Secretary Nominee Betsy DeVos Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the U.S. Department of Education, will be on the hot seat next Tuesday, Jan. 17. She'll be taking questions from the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee at her confirmation hearing...more>> US News: What Does Betsy DeVos Believe? Hearings are planned this week on President-elect Donald Trump's nomination of philanthropist and activist Betsy DeVos to be the next secretary of education. The usual suspects are lining up to unflinchingly support or oppose her nomination - even as many can't even pronounce her name...more>> Chronicle: DeVos Moves From Wealthy Outsider to Cabinet Insider Many people outside of Michigan know this city as the home of former President Gerald R. Ford. His presidential museum is located beside the Grand River near the middle of the downtown business district here...more>> NYT: Big Worries About Betsy DeVos The director of the Office of Government Ethics, the nonpartisan agency charged with vetting the financial disclosures of cabinet nominees for potential conflicts of interest, sent an extraordinary letter to Senate Democratic leaders late last week. Never in the four-decade history of the agency, he wrote, have ethics officials felt such "undue pressure ... to rush through these important reviews,"...more>> Washington Post: Here's what Elizabeth Warren wants to know from Trump's education pick In advance of this week's confirmation hearing, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Monday sent Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for education secretary, a litany of questions that raise concerns about the billionaire's qualifications for the job...more>> NYT: Betsy DeVos, Trump's Education Pick, Plays Hardball With Her Wealth ...More than anyone else who has joined the incoming Trump administration, she represents the combination of wealth, free-market ideology and political hardball associated with a better-known family of billionaires: Charles and David Koch...more>> EWA: How Quickly Could Trump Change Public Education? It's shaping up to be a contentious year on the education beat, fueled in part by Donald Trump's upset victory in the presidential election...more>> The 74: Attention, Senators: The Questions 14 Education Experts Would Put to Betsy DeVos Wednesday Congressional hearings, particularly to examine controversial subjects or consider high-profile nominations, often serve as much as a venue for legislators to score political points and garner social media mentions as to investigate real, substantive policy issues...more>> NYT: The Teen's Guide to the Trump Presidency Lots of adults started paying attention to Teen Vogue recently. It started with an opinion article by Lauren Duca, the magazine's weekend editor, called "Donald Trump Is Gaslighting America."...more>> The Nation: The Education of Barack Obama Only recently has the president focused on progressive issues like school funding and desegregation. Don't expect Trump to do the same...more>> SHRM: Employers that Export Jobs Face Uncertainty Trump's threat to impose tariffs could complicate workforce planning...more>> Parchman, Vaughan & Co: 2016 Post Election Education Sector As the following stock charts illuminate, the equity markets are viewing the recent election results optimistically for publicly-traded education and training firms. Many industry observers expect the Post-Secondary sector to stabilize with the policies of the new administration...more>> More Et Alia: McKinsey: Three more reasons why US education is ready for investment ...Here, we focus on three new themes: technology for K-12 teacher professional development, pathway programs for international students in higher education, and simulation and serious-game training in corporate learning...more>> NYT: After Belt Tightening, Venture Capitalists See More Promise in 2017 Investors who once poured money into the nation's start-ups with abandon began to tighten their belts this year...more>> EdWeek: Investors See Promise in Ed-Tech Sector Despite Challenges The ed-tech sector continues to attract investor interest despite questions about where it's headed, how much its products are being used, and how effective they are...more>> The PIE News: How is big money shaping big ambitions in global education? "Everybody everywhere with capital is looking at the education sector, because it has these fundamentally attractive characteristics," declares Rupert Barclay, managing partner and co-head of the education practice at Cairneagle Associates in the UK...more>> EdSurge: Rethink Education Re-Ups Commitment to Edtech With $107.5 Million Fund Venture capital for U.S. education technology startups ebbed in 2016, dipping roughly 30 percent in deal volume and value from the previous year...more>> CES: Education & Technology Marketplace Exhibitors Where innovation meets education, the Education & Technology Marketplace showcased how K-20 education is reinventing itself through groundbreaking entrepreneurial innovation and corporate investment...more>> HBR: Stop Waiting for Governments to Close the Skills Gap ...Although much attention has been paid, rightly, to government's role in providing educational resources and skills to its citizens, we believe it will be hard to stop growing levels of inequality and economic anxiety without companies playing a more active role and assuming more responsibility for training, skilling, and reskilling employees...more>> NYT: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Builds Political Muscle for Philanthropic Work The Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, have vowed to put their enormous wealth toward philanthropic causes...more>> National Affairs: The Fog of "College Readiness" Our K-12 education system has a transparency problem, and our higher-education system is complicit...more>> eCampus News: Is it time to shake up traditional learning, employment pathways? A new framework attempts to tackle the education-to-employment arena and illustrates how technology plays a pivotal role...more>> EdSurge: When Personalized Learning Is a Logical Fallacy Personalized learning is not a product you can buy - it's a set of strategies that teachers can implement, sometimes with the help of products that are designed to support those strategies...more>> Forbes: What Do Employers Value More -- Experience Or Education? Dear Liz, I am at a career crossroads. I can get a new job in my field pretty easily (as job searches go) but if I take another job like the one I just left, I will only further pigeonhole myself in the same role I've already performed for three different companies...more>> Digital Tonto: The 30 Years Rule - Innovation Takes A Lot Longer Than You Think "Agile" has become the mantra for the digital age. If you don't move fast, so the thinking goes, you can never be any good, because your competitors will get there first and you'll be left in the dust...more>> Forbes: Top Employers Say Millennials Need These 4 Skills in 2017 Millennial job seekers receive conflicting messages from employers and career advisors: on the one hand, we're told robots will someday replace our technical skills, so why bother. On the other hand, we're told hard skills are a hot commodity...more>> Forbes: The Gig Economy: Your Ticket To Sourcing Top Talent The gig economy isn't just for ride-sharing services and odd jobs. Smart leaders are taking advantage of it to source highly qualified knowledge workers - and, with a little preparation, you can too. Here's how...more>> McKinsey: Education to employment: Designing a system that works Young people can't find jobs. Yet employers can't find people with the right entry-level skills. How can we close this gap?...more>> Fortune: Corporate Training Gets an Upgrade for the Facebook Generation Ladder falls and truck accidents are no laughing matter on the job. But Walmart (WMT, -0.50%) hopes to prevent them with the help of a game...more>> Entrepreneur India: What Took Edtech so Long to Gain Ground? ...Despite being out of investors' radar for so many years, Indian edtech start-ups ranked second after the US with six per cent share of the total edtech deals globally between 2011 and April 2016, as per start-up deal tracker CB Insights...more>> Fortune: The Ugly Unethical Underside of Silicon Valley As the list of startup scandals grows, it's time to ask whether entrepreneurs are taking "fake it till you make it" too far...more>> BusinessWire: Education Apps Market in the US to Grow at 28% CAGR Owing to Growing Demand from E-Learning, Reports Technavio Technavio analysts forecast the education apps market in the US to grow at a CAGR of over 28% during the forecast period, according to their latest report...more>> BusinessWire: Corporate Training Market in the US to Grow at a CAGR of Approximately 10% Through 2020, Reports Technavio Technavio research analysts forecast the corporate training market in the US to grow at a CAGR of close to 10% during the forecast period, according to their latest report...more>> BusinessWire: Increase in Demand for Distance Education to Fuel the Growth of Lecture Capture Solutions Market in the US Through 2021, Reports Technavio Technavio market research analysts forecast the lecture capture solutions market in the US to grow at a CAGR of close to 17% during the forecast period, according to their latest report...more>> The EvoLLLution: The Hidden Benefits of Corporate Training Programs When universities think about the benefits of non-credit programs the first thing that comes to mind is revenue generation. But really that is only a piece of what these programs can offer...more>> The Atlantic: How Comedy Became Education's Best Critique Late-night hosts including John Oliver and Samantha Bee devoted air time to school-related issues this year, pushing the topics into mainstream conversation...more>> HBR: The 5 Skills That Innovative Leaders Have in Common XBInsight has collected competency data on nearly 5,000 leaders across a wide range of industries. Analyses were done to identify the competencies that innovative leaders share...more>> CNBC: Pearson's marketing chief on the company's virtual tutors and digital education transformation When Samuel Pearson founded a small building company in the north of England back in 1844 he would have had no idea that his eponymous business would become the largest education provider in the world...more>> Games and Learning: Education Gamification Markets Expected to Grow Globally The new report, Global Education Gamification Market 2016-2020, concludes that globally the gamification of education will explode from its current $93 million mark in 2015 to $1.2 billion by 2020. That's a CAGR of 68% over the coming five years...more>> BusinessWire: Online Language Learning in the US - Market Drivers and Forecasts from Technavio Technavio analysts forecast the online language learning market in the US to grow at a CAGR of almost 9% during the forecast period, according to their latest report...more>> THE Journal: E-Learning Market Expected to Experience Major Growth Over Next Five Years The e-learning market is predicted to experience significant global growth over the next five years, largely driven by advances in technology, evolving business needs and a number of emerging learning and development trends, according to Docebo's newly released research report, "E-Learning Market Trends and Forecast 2017-2021."...more>> UNICON: University-based Executive Education moving beyond classroom instruction The International Consortium for Executive Education (UNICON) today released findings from its annual membership benchmarking survey, which includes responses from nearly 100 universities around the world with significant executive education programs...more>> BSG: Looking Outside of the Education Box "Should we look exclusively within education, or should we consider people outside education?" Some version of that question is asked more and more in our pre-search discussions as we launch senior level executive searches in the for-profit education sectors...more>> Quartz: For a career at IBM, you can skip the college education There's a lot of good reasons to go to college, but getting a job at a tech firm isn't one of them. A range of technology occupations-from front-end developers to network administrators-don't require college degrees...more>> Brookings: Memos to the president on the future of U.S. education policy For the next two-and-a-half weeks, the Chalkboard will feature special content as part of our series, "Memos to the president on the future of U.S. education policy."...more>> GradNation: Gains in College Readiness and Enrollments Propel Nation Towards its Postsecondary Goals, But Next Wave of Challenges Threaten Future Progress Study looks closely at pipeline from high school to postsecondary education completion for three cohorts of young adults...more>> US News: On the Path to the Middle Class This is how career and technical education programs prepare young people for middle-class jobs...more>> |
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