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K-12

NPR: From DACA To DeVos: Education Predictions For 2018
On the NPR Ed Team, I am what you might call the grizzled veteran. I've seen education trends come and go and come again. And go again...more>>

eSchool News: 10 education trends for 2018
From shifts in school choice to student assessments to online learning, the educational landscape is constantly evolving. This coming year, districts will continue to face many challenges and opportunities that will impact students, staff, and school systems as a whole. Below, experts from various areas of the education industry share trends that will help shape K-12 education in 2018...more>>

Edutopia: 5-Minute Film Festival: Best Educational Parodies of 2017
Take a well-deserved break and enjoy our picks for the best recent parody videos for educators and their students...more>>

Edutopia: 2017 Education Research Highlights
Twelve studies that educators should know about, on everything from the benefits of mentors to the most effective studying strategies...more>>

AERA: AERA Announces Most Read Education Research Articles of 2017
Research on student loan aversion, the accuracy of youth political knowledge, student achievement in online charter schools, and more appears in the 10 most popular journal articles published by the American Educational Research Association in 2017...more>>

The 74: 10 Charts That Changed the Way We Think About America�s Schools in 2017
In 2017, we started thinking differently about the importance of high-quality preschool. We began talking about the boon to minority students of a more diverse teacher workforce. We questioned the country's skyrocketing high school graduation rates. And we took a second look at system-wide reform efforts in historically dysfunctional school districts...more>>

EdWeek Market Brief: Snapshot of K-12 Tech Landscape: More Districts Reach 1-to-1, But Equity Gaps Persist
One of the biggest barriers facing ed-tech companies trying to integrate their products into schools is also one of the most fundamental: If students don't have basic access to devices, K-12 companies' ambitions are likely to run aground...more>>

Education Week: Homeschooling: Requirements, Research, and Who Does It
Even as recently as 1980, home schooling was illegal in a majority of states-and didn't become lawful nationwide until 1993. But once seen as a fringe practice of families on the extreme right and left-religious conservatives and hippies-homeschooling today is viewed as a small, but integral part of the education ecosystem in the United States and a pillar of the school choice movement...more>>

eSchool News: What does cybersecurity education look like for today's young students? And why is it critical?
Now more than ever, our digital culture has shaped both what is taught at schools and how it is taught. While educators are challenged to keep up with the speed of this change, the rise of digitization has also created immense opportunities for educators and students alike...more>>

NYT: Apple Investors Warn iPhones and Other Technology May Be Hurting Children
A pair of investors who say they hold about $2 billion in Apple stock are pushing the company to do more to protect its youngest users from the effects of digital technology...more>>

eSchool News: 5 questions we should be asking about student screen addiction
Numerous voices have emerged in the last two years to warn us about the effects of digital screen addiction on children. These voices include Adam Alter in his book "Irresistible", Nicholas Kardaras in his book "Glow Kids", Jean Twenge in her Atlantic Monthly "iGen" article, Delaney Ruston in her film "Screenagers", and Anderson Cooper in his 60 Minutes "Brain Hacking" segment...more>>

EdSurge: From Good Intentions to Real Shortcomings: An Edtech Reckoning
In 2017, reality took a massive swipe at the wobbly optimism of technology progressives...more>>

Education Week: Few States Want to Offer Districts Chance to Give ACT, SAT Instead of State Test
The Every Student Succeeds Act may have kept annual testing as a federal requirement. But it also aims to help states cut down on the number of assessments their students must take by giving districts the chance to use a nationally-recognized college entrance exam, instead of the regular state test, for accountability purposes...more>>

The 74: Analysis: Why School Districts Need a �Consumer Reports' for Ed Tech
Collectively, our nation's K-12 schools and institutions of higher education spend more than $13 billion annually on education technology. And yet we have a dearth of data to inform our understanding of which products (or categories of products) are most likely to "work" within a particular school or classroom...more>>

WSJ: Losing Students, Private Schools Try to Change
Private schools are lowering tuition, ramping up marketing and targeting traditionally underrepresented communities to reverse a national enrollment decline...more>>

AP: School virtual shooter training program aimed at survival
Using cutting-edge video game technology and animation, the U.S. Army and Homeland Security Department have developed a computer-based simulator that can train everyone from teachers to first responders on how to react to an active shooter scenario...more>>

KGOU: Oklahoma: Largest Virtual School's Growth Outpaces Rest Of State's Schools Combined
The state's largest virtual charter school reported staggering growth for 2017-18, adding more than 4,000 students to its roster, according to the latest enrollment data...more>>

EdSurge: Confronting K-12 Cybersecurity and the End of Innocence
In discussions among educators and entrepreneurs about the importance of student data privacy, issues of information technology security risks and threats are often glossed over...more>>

EdSurge: Google Chromebooks' Growth Slows-Cracking a Window for Microsoft and Apple
Google Chromebooks are still the leading choice for K-12 device adoptions, but growth may be slowing as schools buy fewer devices and Apple and Microsoft up their game to stay competitive, according to a new report from Futuresource Consulting...more>>

eSchool News: Why, and how, warranties should guide edtech purchasing
When evaluating a district's edtech needs there are several factors to consider, including product warranties and life cycle of the product. Consumer brands typically do not offer warranties for school use, and this is where differentiation between consumer and commercial devices comes into play...more>>

ELearning Inside News: Five Takeaways from the Latest Getting Smart Report on AI
Tom Vander Ark recently authored a report, "Ask About AI: The Future of Work and Learning" and released it via Getting Smart, the digital consulting firm he started...more>>

ChinaNews: Market size of school education doubles in 5 years
The market size of Chinese K12 (kindergarten through 12th grade) education has doubled in the past five years and the pace is expected to continue in the next five years, according to Edwin Chen, co-head of Asian small/mid-caps research of UBS Securities...more>>

iNACOL: Fit for Purpose: Taking the Long View on Systems Change and Policy to Support Competency Education
This paper explores and reflects on the issues state policy needs to address in the long-term to support a transformation of K-12 education systems. Personalized learning and competency-based education systems, designed to ensure equity, hold promise to prepare all students for success in college, career and civic life...more>>

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Request for Proposal on Networks for School Improvement
Guided by the belief that all lives have equal value, and that all students-especially Black, Latino, and low-income students-must have equal access to a great public education that prepares them for adulthood, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is excited to announce this Request for Proposal (RFP) to fund Networks for School Improvement (NSI)...more>>

EdWeek Market Brief: Top Education Foundations Supporting K-12 Schools Score Record Funding, Report Says
Local education foundations, whose grants provide K-12 funding beyond taxpayers' dollars, have hit a new high, holding more than $539 million in assets and raising nearly $400 million, according to research released today by the Caruthers Institute...more>>

Medium: More personal means more equitable and just
The work of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in education...more>>

NYT Magazine: Why Are Our Most Important Teachers Paid the Least?
Many preschool teachers live on the edge of financial ruin. Would improving their training - and their pay - improve outcomes for their students?...more>>

NYT: What Pre-K Means for Your Pre-Teenager
Just how important is good preschool in the course of a child's life? Skeptical researchers have contended that it doesn't really matter, that preschool provides only short-term educational assistance that fades out after a few years. But new findings from a continuing study of 4,000 children in Tulsa, Okla., should put that contention to rest...more>>

Education Week: 10 Game-Changing Ideas in Education
We went looking for big ideas in K-12 schooling: trends, disruptions, practices, or technologies that could help solve some of the field's biggest challenges...more>>

eSchool News: How 5 states are rocking education data
States are on the right path when it comes to using real-time education data to inform teaching and learning, but they should continue taking critical steps to improve data use, according to a new report...more>>

Hechinger: Modern apprenticeships offer path to career - and college
No longer an either-or proposition: Students plan apprenticeships then college on the way to the workforce...more>>

EdSurge: Understanding the Limits of Education Technology and Risk Taking in Schools
Eva Moskowitz, the founder of New York City's Success Academy, set the tone for this year's NY Edtech conference by telling the crowd of 1,400 techies, entrepreneurs, researchers and educators that she may have some "unpopular perspectives" on edtech...more>>

Hechinger: Willing, able and forgotten
Up to 90 percent of students with disabilities are capable of graduating high school fully prepared to tackle college or a career if they receive proper support along the way. Only 65 percent graduate on time. Those that do cross the finish line often aren't ready for the next step...more>>

The Sociable: Bringing Silicon Valley into Schools: How to Make Students Entrepreneurs of Their Own Education
For decades, experts have called for a move away from the outdated 'Factory model of education", which was founded by industrialists in the 18th century, and designed to churn out generations of docile, obedient factory workers...more>>

The Atlantic: Why Do American Schools Have Such Long Hours?
U.S. students spend more time in K-12 schools than their peers in many other countries. In fact, in Japan and South Korea, kids spend an average of about 150 fewer instructional hours per year in school, yet these students consistently score higher on international tests...more>>

Hechinger: Internet access in schools: E-rate trends and the end of net neutrality
The federal E-rate program has increased classroom internet access, but net neutrality decision could hamper it...more>>

The 74: Schools Could See Higher Bills, Less New Educational Software After Net Neutrality Vote - but Most Teachers Don't Know It Yet
As the federal government prepares to roll back regulations that prevent internet service providers from blocking or prioritizing certain online content, education leaders say students could soon be stuck in a virtual traffic...more>>

Education Week: The Nation Spends $649 Billion on K-12, But Does That Satisfy School Officials?
American taxpayers spent close to $649 billion on its K-12 schools in 2015. That's according to a new survey released by the National Center for Education Statistics...more>>

The 74: The States That Spend the Most (and Least) on Education - and How Their Students Perform Compared With Their Neighbors
...In a development that may not prove shocking to education observers, many of the highest-spending states are thought to boast the best school systems...more>>

The Economist: America's school funding is more progressive than many assume
How states and the federal government offset the effects of local inequality...more>>

U.S. News: Concerns Mount Over K-12 Education Plans
As the Department of Education nears the end of its review of states' plans, the proposals and the approval process face criticism...more>>

Education Week: Four Things Educators Should Know About the Tax Bill Trump Just Signed
President Donald Trump just signed a major tax bill into law. It took two votes in the House to finally get it done, and the holdup was related to education. (More on that below.) So what does it mean for education? Here's a short list...more>>

Higher Ed

EdDive: 5 trends poised to shake up higher education in 2018
In 2017, a focus on adult learners was named the Education Dive: Higher Education Obsession of the Year, and for good reason: According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 8.1 million students enrolled in higher education - or more than 40% - in 2015 were 25+ years old...more>>

EdSurge: Highlights From a Year of Tracking Future Trends in Education
If we look back on 2017 in educational technology, some of the biggest surprises were political and cultural...more>>

Robert Kelchen Blog: The 2017 Higher Education Top Ten List
It's safe to say that 2017 has been one of the most fascinating years in the realm of higher education policy in a long while...more>>

NRCUA: 2018 Predictions for Higher Education
...This year, my three predictions-about the future of the bachelor's degree, the potential for blended learning, and signs of life in the international online market-anticipate potentially game-changing innovations, at home and abroad, in response to palpable trends...more>>

Gallup: What Gallup Learned About Higher Education in 2017
Throughout 2017, Gallup investigated the current state of higher education in the U.S. We listened to the perspectives of critical audiences ranging from chief business and academic officers at colleges and universities to education consumers themselves to Americans in general...more>>

Washington Post: Here's how Washington could shape higher education in 2018
The year ahead could usher in significant changes in the federal government's role in higher education. Events set in motion in 2017 will loom large, though resolutions may be years in the making. Here are a few things worth watching in the coming months...more>>

EdDive: Professor's 'Not Top Ten' list reveals some hope for turning public support for higher ed
As last semester drew to a close, Seton Hall assistant professor of higher education Robert Kelchen revealed his annual "not top ten" list of the "puzzling decisions and epic fails" that characterized higher education in 2017...more>>

The EvoLLLution: The EvoLLLution's 2017 Year in Review: eBook Download
This eBook shares articles and interviews from leaders across the higher education community reflecting on how their institutions are evolving to meet the needs of modern students, and using technology not for its own sake, but to meet and exceed students' expectations...more>>

Inside Higher Ed: Who Is Studying Online (and Where)
New federal data show continued (and accelerating) growth in online course taking in 2016, even as overall college enrollments were flat or falling. Big gainers: Western Governors and Arizona State. Big losers: the big for-profits...more>>

EdSurge: Higher Ed Innovators Maze: Where to Go, How to Start, How to Get There
The term "innovation" conjures up all sorts of high tech-centered dreams worthy of an Elon Musk keynote. "Higher education innovation" is no different, though instead of flying cars and Mars colonies, what likely comes to mind first are online and competency-based learning platforms, learning management systems, or electronic whiteboards...more>>

Times Higher Ed: I see an academic empire rising in China, and the West should take note
Ahead of our Asia Universities Summit, Sir Keith Burnett looks into the future for UK higher education and sees the growing importance of China...more>>

The Diplomat: China's Education Boom
China's universities are experiencing astonishing growth, and the government hopes for even more...more>>

Times Higher Education: China 'will teach 500,000 international students by 2020'
Ambitious target will be smashed as communist state steps up overseas collaboration efforts...more>>

EdSurge: New Media Consortium Unexpectedly Shuts Down, Citing 'Errors and Omissions' by CFO
A nonprofit known for its annual "Horizon Reports" on the future of technology at K-12 schools, universities, and museums abruptly shut down this month after officials discovered the organization was out of money...more>>

EdSurge: Amazon's Education Hub, Amazon Inspire, Has Quietly Restored 'Sharing' Function
Amazon has quietly re-opened a previously-controversial sharing feature that allows allow anyone to add to its directory of online educational materials, a platform called Amazon Inspire...more>>

EdSurge: As Textbook Companies Try New Options, Many Students Say Price Is Biggest Factor
Professors assign textbooks (or other materials) that they view as required to succeed in their courses, but some students say they go in with a wait-and-see attitude: They delay a week or two into the semester, and then obtain only the materials that seem truly necessary to them...more>>

EdSurge: OER Had Its Breakthrough in 2017. Next Year, It Will Become an Essential Teaching Tool
Open educational resources (OER) have long been touted as "the next big thing" in higher education, but the drawn-out hype has led many educators and administrators to wonder if it would ever live up to its expectations. Those days are over: 2017 was OER's breakthrough year...more>>

Chronicle: Use of Free Textbooks Is Rising, but Barriers Remain
A growing number of professors are replacing the traditional textbook with an openly licensed one, according to a survey released on Tuesday. But their overall numbers remain small - and widespread adoption of the practice could remain out of reach unless key barriers are overcome...more>>

WSJ: Textbook Shopping Goes Online, Driving Prices Down
Comparison shopping is forcing sellers to provide new, cheaper options, giving students, parents some small education-cost relief...more>>

EdSurge: How Tech Companies Woo Higher Ed (and What They Seek in Return)
Gifts are plentiful during the holidays. But Christmas came early for some higher-ed institutions in the form of freebies and discounts from big technology companies. Amazon gave Echo Dots. Apple also reached out with iPad Pros and other hardware at a discounted rate...more>>

EdSurge: The Metamorphosis of MOOCs
Increasingly, MOOCs are being packaged into series of courses with a non-degree credential being offered to those who successfully complete the series. Some people wonder whether these credentials could serve as an alternative to a degree. Others hope that they may provide a pathway to a degree. Most likely, these new options will emerge as a low-cost alternative to employer-provided training...more>>

Hechinger: Impatient with universities' slow pace of change, employers go around them
Tech companies are sidestepping the middleman and creating their own courses...more>>

EdTech: What Higher Education Experts Want You To Know About AI
Artificial intelligence has the power to boost student outcomes with proper usage...more>>

Bloomberg: Can Mitchonomics Fix the Broken Business of Higher Ed?
The former governor of Indiana is applying his budget zeal at Purdue University...more>>

Chronicle: What Can the CEO of a $1.6-Billion Enrollment-Services Giant Tell Us About the Student Life Cycle?
David L. Felsenthal will admit it: He's a "research dork." He's also chief executive officer of EAB, one of the biggest engines in the enrollment-services field...more>>

Politico: Colleges offer 'recovery housing' in response to opioid crisis
Recovery programs on college campuses, often including special dorms, are multiplying fast amid the opioid crisis, spreading from a handful of campuses to around 100 across the country...more>>

LA Times: College campuses are constructing buildings that look like they're straight out of Harry Potter's world
In general I have no patience for the argument, popular among classic liberals and Fox News viewers alike, that American college students these days are coddled or protected from especially challenging ideas. Did you read that recent Huffington Post essay "Millennials Are Screwed," the one illustrated with the pixelated avocados?...more>>

EdSurge: Deeper Collaboration Is the Answer to Higher Ed's Challenges
We're closer to the next recession than we are the last, a higher ed official recently reminded me. Indeed, while colleges and universities continue to struggle financially, the dark days of 2008 seem like a distant memory for most of them...more>>

Bloomberg: Wall Street Is Making Even More Billionaires of U.S. Colleges
Endowments are riding the bull market to riches, but some question whether students should get more help...more>>

Inside Higher Ed: Enrollment Slide Continues, at Slower Rate
College enrollments in the U.S. decline for a sixth straight year - although at a slower rate - while the bachelor's degree got more popular...more>>

University Business: Leveraging tech for learning and college administration
An increase in technology spending is the gift that about 4 in 10 campus technology administrators are unwrapping to start the new year. Sixteen percent of the 96 respondents to a UB survey, however, must deal with a decrease in spending...more>>

Chronicle: Executive Compensation at Private and Public Colleges
The Chronicle's executive-compensation package includes the latest data on more than 1,200 chief executives at more than 600 private colleges from 2008-15 and nearly 250 public universities and systems from 2010-16...more>>

Baltimore Business Journal: Laureate to sell Chinese university for $218.5M
Laureate Education Inc. is selling its majority stake in a Chinese university as the company continues its push to become more efficient...more>>

NPR: For-Profit And Online Education: What's Going On?
It's been quite a year for for-profit education. "Continued collapse," is how Bryan Alexander, an educational futurist, describes it. Here's a quick look back...more>>

EdSurge: After Net Neutrality, Experts Expect Changes to FCC's E-Rate
It's no great overstatement to say that the Federal Communications Commission's recent decision to rollback net neutrality protections has shaken the education community's faith in open and equitable internet access for all students...more>>

NYT: As Flow of Foreign Students Wanes, U.S. Universities Feel the Sting
At Wright State University in Ohio, the French horn and tuba professors are out. So is the accomplished swimming team. At Kansas State, Italian classes are going the way of the Roman Empire...more>>

The 74: Apprenticeships? Competency-Based Programs? GOP-Led Overhaul of Higher Ed Looks to Push These Concepts Into Mainstream
Rising tuition costs and increasing skepticism about the value of the traditional four-year degree are causing students, higher education organizations, and government officials to turn to alternative programs that are touted as cheaper, more flexible, and based on skills rather than classroom hours...more>>

NYT: Higher Ed's Low Moment
When all was said and done, the tax overhaul that President Trump signed into law a little more than a week ago didn't beat up on higher education to the extent that earlier drafts of the legislation did...more>>

EdSurge: What's In? What's Out? And What's Likely? Decoding Higher Ed Act Reauthorization
On December 12, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce took its first meaningful steps toward reauthorizing the Higher Education Act since 2008...more>>

EdSurge: From Neutrality to Inequality: Why the FCC Is Dismantling Equal Access and What It Could Mean for Education
Faculty members who teach face-to-face may imagine that last week's vote by the Federal Communications Commission to dismantle net neutrality doesn't touch them, since their instruction is exclusively on campus, not plugged in to the web. Unfortunately, they're mistaken...more>>

Chronicle: Repeal of Net-Neutrality Rules Disappoints Higher-Ed Associations
The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday repealed Obama-era regulations that required internet-service providers to treat all online traffic equally...more>>

Gallup: The Political Divide Over Higher Education in America
Republicans have soured on higher education. Sixty-seven percent of Republicans in the U.S. have "some" to "very little confidence" in colleges and universities, according to a recent Gallup survey...more>>

University Ventures: Education Dogs
The most surprising thing over Christmas break wasn't that 10 in-laws came to stay at our house, nor even that they stayed for an entire week. Instead, it was something I read in the New York Times (while hiding from my in-laws in my home office)...more>>

NYT: New Higher Education Bill Rolls Back Obama-Era Safeguards
Congressional Republicans began work Tuesday on an extensive rewrite of the law that governs the nation's system of higher education, seeking to dismantle landmark Obama administration regulations designed to protect students from predatory for-profit colleges and to repay the loans of those who earned worthless degrees from scam universities...more>>

Observatory: For a better future, quality undergraduate education for everyone
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has issued a report entitled The Future of Undergraduate Education, The Future of America, in which experts give three key recommendations for the future of education...more>>

EdDive: Re-imagining institutional accountability
Reducing success down to employment outcomes does students a disservice. So how can leaders better evaluate schools' effectiveness?...more>>

Brookings: The looming student loan default crisis is worse than we thought
This report analyzes new data on student debt and repayment, released by the U.S. Department of Education in October 2017. Previously available data have been limited to borrowers only, follow students for a relatively short period (3-5 years) after entering repayment, and had only limited information on student characteristics and experiences...more>>

Center for American Progress: Education Department Proposes Major Changes to Student Aid
The passage of a massive tax bill and a reauthorization proposal of the Higher Education Act (HEA) of 1965 by congressional Republicans consumed postsecondary education circles at the end of 2017. But while all eyes were on Congress, the U.S. Department of Education announced two programs that could dramatically change how millions of Americans access and repay their federal student aid...more>>

The Atlantic: The World Might Be Better Off Without College for Everyone
Students don't seem to be getting much out of higher education...more>>

Politico: Trump talked tough but hasn't reined in college tuition
Rather than press universities on affordability, he has sought to tax them and promote alternative paths for students...more>>

University Ventures: Debt Free in '18
Student loans haven't paid off for most young parents. Overall only 57% of the 22 million Americans with federal student loans are current on their payments; 43% are in default (3.6M), delinquent (3.0M) or in forbearance (3.0M). And this may be a high estimate given a recent Department of Education coding error indicating that actual repayment rates could be as much as 20% lower...more>>

WSJ: Nearly 5 Million Americans in Default on Student Loans
The number of Americans severely behind on payments on federal student loans reached roughly 4.6 million in the third quarter, a doubling from four years ago, despite a historically long stretch of U.S. job creation and steady economic growth...more>>

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McKinsey: What the future of work will mean for jobs, skills, and wages
In an era marked by rapid advances in automation and artificial intelligence, new research assesses the jobs lost and jobs gained under different scenarios through 2030...more>>

Venture Beat: VCs invested the most capital in 2017 since the dotcom era
According to a report released by PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), 2017 saw the highest annual amount of capital deployed to the startup ecosystem since the early 2000s...more>>

Venture Beat: 10 startups outside Silicon Valley to watch in 2018
...Another enterprise software company that's gaining traction outside of the Valley is Lessonly. Though its most recent raise - an $8 million series B in November - is modest, its journey has been notable for a couple of reasons...more>>

EdSurge: Fewer Deals, More Money: U.S. Edtech Funding Rebounds With $1.2 Billion in 2017
Is education technology investing back on track? Are investors still eager to put their money in education startups? The answers depend on who you ask...more>>

HR Dive: Learning tech trends to watch in 2018 and beyond
leading into 2018, learning professionals have plenty to keep an eye on when it comes to technology. Some trends are showing promising results and requiring leaders to think about their jobs differently...more>>

NPR: The Biggest Education Stories Of 2017 And 2018
It's not every year that a new Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, becomes a household name, satirized on Saturday Night Live, never mind being the most unpopular member of a historically unpopular cabinet...more>>

The Atlantic: Must-Read Education Stories From 2017
A roundup of The Atlantic's coverage on schools, learning, and everything in between...more>>

The 74: The 20 Buzziest Education Storylines of 2017 (According to TopSheet Subscribers)
What a year in education. A new president, a new Department of Education secretary, a new federal education law. School districts seceding. An intellectual migration westward. A spiraling pension problem...more>>

eCampus News: 25 education trends for 2018
In this straight-forward report, eSchool Media discusses what to expect, overall, in 2018; how 2017 compares to 2018 for both K-12 and higher ed; and predictions from educators and industry on both K-12 and higher ed trends for the new year...more>>

ELearning Inside News: Five Surprising and Innovative Uses of eLearning in 2017
By all accounts, 2017 has been a year unlike any other in recent memory. And we're not talking about troubling politics-both domestic and international-or social movements or the media. 2017 has, overall year, been a remarkable year when it comes to education technology...more>>

Venture Beat: 2018 could be the year AI kills spam and redefines data science
There's no doubt about it - artificial intelligence is here, and it's poised to make a tremendous impact on virtually every industry...more>>

The Atlantic: 8 Overly Confident, Mostly Pessimistic Predictions About Tech in 2018
The bankification of Big Tech, a strange profusion of wheeled vehicles, and more predictions about the year to come...more>>

Venture Beat: Heartland Tech's 2018 predictions: Seed capital, apprenticeships, and HQ2 publicity stunts
In 2017, there seemed to be an uptick in tech companies looking to connect with the Heartland...more>>

USA Today: CES Editors' Choice Awards: The coolest new products you'll want to buy in 2018
Welcome to the best of CES 2018. After pouring through hundreds of new products, the crack team of writers and editors at Reviewed have narrowed it down to this: our CES Editors' Choice awards...more>>

Venture Beat: CES 2018 analysts predict consumer electronic trends for the coming year
The top tech trends for 2018 will be about the coming of 5G, artificial intelligence, companion robots, smart cities, mixed reality, sports innovation, digital therapeutics, and other areas projected to play a big role in the global economy for years to come...more>>

NYT: The Big Tech Trends to Follow at CES 2018
Imagine this: When you leave the house, your air conditioner and lights turn off automatically. Then when a motion sensor detects a person in the house, like your house cleaner, it sends an alert to your phone...more>>

Huff Post: Millennials Are Screwed
Why millennials are facing the scariest financial future of any generation since the Great Depression [Warning: not W3C compliant: it requires scrolling to text and the initial flashing screen not suitable for all users]...more>>

NPR: 5 Things To Know About Screen Time Right Now
After another round of holidays, it's safe to assume, a lot of children have been diving into media more than usual...more>>

The Economist: Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic nowadays
But they are also lonelier and more isolated...more>>

EdSurge: 'When' Does Learning Happen Best? Dan Pink on the Science Behind Timing and Education
...So what's the best way to make the most effective use of our limited time? That's the driving theme in the newest book from Dan Pink, the speechwriter, TV producer and acclaimed author of bestsellers "Drive" and "To Sell is Human." His latest book, "When," draws on research from psychology, biology and economics to explore how timing impacts every aspect of our lives-including of course, how we teach and learn...more>>

Hack Education: The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'
In May, venture capitalist and former securities analyst Mary Meeker released her annual "Internet Trends" report. The report is always a big deal in technology circles - "a tech industry event in its own right," as Wired's Steven Levy put it in 2012 - and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker's observations, often adding very little analysis of their own...more>>

Pew Research: Key trends shaping technology in 2017
In the past year, Pew Research Center has explored a range of tech-related topics in the news - from online harassment to fake news to net neutrality. Here are some key findings from our research on these and other technology issues...more>>

HBR: The Leader's Guide to Corporate Culture
Strategy and culture are among the primary levers at top leaders' disposal in their never-ending quest to maintain organizational viability and effectiveness. Strategy offers a formal logic for the company's goals and orients people around them. Culture expresses goals through values and beliefs and guides activity through shared assumptions and group norms...more>>

HBR: Why Leaders Should Make a Habit of Teaching
Sydney Finkelstein, a professor of management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, encourages leaders to approach their direct reports like teachers...more>>

HBR: Too Many Experts Can Hurt Your Innovation Projects
If you need an appendectomy, call a surgeon. But if you're seeking a CEO for a surgical device company, an MD may not be your best choice...more>>

EdSurge: Can a Test Ever Be Fair? How Today's Standardized Tests Get Made.
After politics and religion, few issues are as contentious as standardized tests. Opinions run the gamut. To some, standardized testing overwhelms our schools and helps eradicate differences between students. For others, they remain the best way to compare students objectively and hold schools accountable...more>>

EdSurge: 4 Augmented and Virtual Reality Projects That Point to the Future of Education
Education has been a recurring theme throughout the many programs of the NYC Media Lab, a public-private partnership where I serve as an Executive Director...more>>

EdWeek Market Brief: K-12 Dealmaking: Wonderschool, Frank, eSafe Raise Funds
Companies focused on pre-K to college education raised new funding recently, including a provider of early childhood programs, a startup that helps students secure college loans, and a UK-based company that helps schools monitor online activity...more>>

EdWeek Market Brief: K-12 Dealmaking: Illuminate Education, Thinkful Make Acquisitions; Digital House Raises $20M
In this week's dealmaking news, Illuminate Education acquired eduCLIMBER, a data system for educators, and Thinkful, a provider of one-on-one web development and data science courses, acquired Viking Code School and The Odin Project...more>>

GeekWire: Education technology startup funding rebounds, but what is 'edtech'?
Education technology is heating up again. Yet edtech's most fervent promoters may be masking the industry's breadth by lumping everything digital under the monolithic label "edtech."...more>>

The Atlantic: 9 Charts That Show What Education in America Is Like in 2017
As trends in education ebb and flow, it gets hard to keep track of the current state of things. Visuals can clarify what's changed over the past year and what has stayed the same. As 2017 comes to a close, we've compiled some graphs and charts that help contextualize the year in education issues...more>>

Forbes: How AI Impacts Education
I often try to switch my own lens, imagining myself as a doctor or a professor, in order to understand the potential of my own products. Artificial intelligence (AI) is the perfect example of how something new could be used to change every aspect of our lives when we change the lens. And education is an area that has unlimited potential to utilize innovation...more>>

Forbes: World's Biggest Education Market Is Opening For Business
For years, China has played hard to get for international school operators, but now the world's biggest education market is opening for business...more>>

EdTech: K-12 Schools, Universities Boost Cybersecurity Education to Close the Skills Gap
With the global number of cybersecurity professionals down, schools need to prepare students for future jobs...more>>

District Administration: Vocational education: From the three 'Rs' to the four 'Cs'
Students need academics and soft skills to avoid becoming obsolete in future workforce...more>>

HBR: Fulfilling the Promise of AI Requires Rethinking the Nature of Work Itself
Everywhere today the news confronts us with deeply held fears of AI and automation. Coverage often focuses on the job loss and social unrest that are viewed as likely to follow...more>>

Marketplace: Why "lost Einsteins" are hurting our economy
Innovation's one of those economic buzzwords you hear constantly, so much so maybe that it loses some of its impact. But some new work from Stanford economist Raj Chetty about who gets to be innovative in this economy is pretty sobering...more>>

HBR: Why Employers Must Stop Requiring College Degrees For Middle-Skill Jobs
Employers are guilty of "degree inflation," requiring lofty academic bona fides for jobs that don't really need them. Joseph Fuller says the practice is hurting American competitiveness...more>>

Campus Technology: Credly Adopts New Credentialing Language
Digital credentials company Credly is adopting the Credential Transparency Description Language (CTDL), a common markup language designed to improve discoverability of certifications, badges and other verified achievements...more>>

NPR: Congress Changed 529 College Savings Plans, And Now States Are Nervous
After Congress' rewrite of the tax code, parents can now use 529 plans to cover tuition not only at colleges and universities, but also at private elementary and high schools. That's a big, sudden expansion, and it has some experts worried...more>>

Venture Beat: Online coding school Thinkful raises $9.6 million to bring more in-person events to Middle America
Thinkful, an online coding school, announced today that it has raised a $9.6 million series A round to bring more in-person career development programs to cities across the U.S....more>>

The Atlantic: Filling America's 6 Million Job Vacancies
Real-time data on the labor market promise to finally help employers and job-seekers make better decisions. Will it work?...more>>

The 74: New Economics Paper Shows That High School and College Jobs Leads to Higher Wages Later in Life
The growth of the college wage premium - the added financial benefit accruing to employees with a few years of college education, and especially completed degrees - has slowed since the 1980s, according to a new paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research...more>>

Washington Post: The surprising thing Google learned about its employees - and what it means for today's students
The conventional wisdom about 21st century skills holds that students need to master the STEM subjects - science, technology, engineering and math - and learn to code as well because that's where the jobs are. It turns out that is a gross simplification of what students need to know and be able to do...more>>

Huff Post: What do attitudes toward the skills gap tell us about state of the U.S. workforce?
Udemy Research: Employers are struggling to fill a record number of U.S. job openings. They've floated a few reasons why finding qualified new hires is so hard right now: Americans don't have the skills required to perform these jobs; traditional education isn't teaching the right skills; government isn't doing enough to get people into skills training programs so our country can remain competitive and productive...more>>