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K-12

Education Week: Was Betsy DeVos' '60 Minutes' Interview a 'Trainwreck' or 'Selectively Edited'?
Ever since her rocky confirmation hearing, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos' has struggled to get her message across to educators and the public. And those problems aren't going away more than a year into her tenure: She and her team have endured hours of harsh headlines and social media hits after she seemed to stumble in her highest-profile interview yet, with Lesley Stahl on "60 Minutes" Sunday night...more>>

Education Week: Educators Carefully Watch Pearson as It Moves to Sell K-12 Curriculum Business
Millions of U.S. students use Pearson's curriculum products in their classrooms, but soon those print and digital resources will no longer fall under the education publishing giant's business umbrella...more>>

EdSurge: Pearson Is Selling Its US K-12 Business-Despite Posting a Profit and Digital Growth
Last May, major textbook publisher Pearson indicated it was mulling a sale of the U.S. portion of its K-12 business, which includes print and digital curriculum and instructional materials. in its latest earnings update, the company confirmed that it is indeed moving ahead with such plans...more>>

The Education Trust: Funding Gaps 2018
School districts that serve large populations of students of color and students from low-income families receive far less funding than those serving White and more affluent students...more>>

District Administration: Report urges federal action on equitable funding for schools
The federal government must take "bold action" to make education funding more equitable, says a recent report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights...more>>

Education Week: Are Teachers' Unions on the Brink of Demise?
The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to deliver a major blow to teachers' unions in the coming months: Teachers in about half of states may no longer have to pay mandatory fees if they're not union members, which could cause drops in both revenue and membership...more>>

NYT: Threat of Shootings Turns School Security Into a Growth Industry
The best way to shield a school from a gunman is to have a metal detector. Or doors that can be remotely locked. Or Twitter-trawling bots looking for threats. Or bulletproof clipboards, whiteboards and backpacks. So says the fast-growing group of companies that sell school safety equipment...more>>

Slate: They Were Trained for This Moment
How the student activists of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High demonstrate the power of a comprehensive education...more>>

WSJ: in Columbine's School District, Former Students Are Tracked to Prevent Attacks
After a former student shot two eighth-graders in 2010 in the same Colorado school district where the Columbine massacre took place, the district's security chief John McDonald sought a way to thwart attacks by alumni...more>>

CNN: in #ArmMeWith movement, teachers ask to be armed -- but not with guns
Teachers have taken to social media in the midst of a gun control debate following the Parkland, Florida, school shooting to push for an increase in classroom resources -- not the ability to carry guns in school...more>>

Edutopia: in High School, the Kids Are Not All Right
With social and academic pressure mounting, a teacher shares what he's learned about tracking his students' mental well-being...more>>

District Administration: Homework overhaul in schools
Along with reducing stress, districts seek to give more purposeful assignments based on students' needs and interests...more>>

Fast Company: This School Focuses On Teaching Students Happiness, Not Math
A modern new school in rural India turns the traditional education model on its head-focusing instead on cultivating happy students and compassionate people...more>>

NYT: A Before-School Exercise Program May Help Children Thrive
A supervised exercise program that gets young children running and playing for an hour before school could make them happier and healthier, while also jibing with the needs and schedules of parents and school officials, according to a new study involving two dozen elementary and middle schools...more>>

EdSurge: Chinese K-12 Online Company, 'Homework Together' Raises $200 Million
17zuoye, a Beijing-based K-12 online education company, has raised $200 million in a Series E round led by Toutiao, a Chinese developer behind a mobile news and content platform...more>>

EdWeek Market Brief: Educators Identify 'Good Guys/Bad Guys' in How Schools Use Ed Tech
Educational technology, by itself, is neither good nor bad-but how it gets used in the classroom could land anywhere in that range of values, a group of teachers and instructional technologists agreed at SXSWedu here this week...more>>

Education Week: How Google is Taking Over the Classroom
Have you noticed how prevalent Google is in today's academic world? Students from elementary school, all the way through high school, have taken part in a monumental shift away from most sought-after products to the variety of apps and devices made by Google...more>>

EdDive: Assessments will be disrupted: Is a performance approach the future of testing?
Discussion at SXSWedu 2018 focuses on push for new testing practices that allow multiple ways for students to demonstrate what they know and can do...more>>

EdSurge: One Standardized Tests Provider Looks to Gaming and Personalized Learning to Innovate Exams
When the Opt-Out movement gained traction in 2015, more than 20 percent of New York students (about 200,000) in grades 3 through 8 declined to take state standardized exams, a statistic that raised questions about the future of such testing...more>>

Getting Smart: The Future of Testing
Given how much the rest of education has changed since the middle of the 20th century, it's remarkable that the model of large-scale student assessment we have today still looks pretty much the way it did back in the nineteen-fifties...more>>

KQED: Can Online Learning Level the AP Playing Field for Rural Students?
Inside a rural high school, five Advanced Placement physics students furiously scribbled notes about a video of a Yale University professor speaking more than 1,200 miles away...more>>

Education Week: Schools Teach 'Cyber Hygiene' to Combat Phishing, Identity Theft
Common mistakes cause big problems...more>>

EdWeek Market Brief: Private Equity Firm Buying a Majority Stake in Discovery Education for $120 Million
Francisco Partners, a technology-focused private equity firm, is acquiring a majority ownership of Discovery Communications' education business, Discovery Education, for $120 million...more>>

NYT: Why This Tech Executive Says Her Plan to Disrupt Education Is Different
At Lumineer Academy, a newly opened primary school in Williamstown, Australia, there is no homework. There are no classrooms, uniforms or traditional grades...more>>

Forbes: Education Policy Design: The High Stakes Business of Educating Students
The American education system is experiencing vast transformation requiring schools to rethink how they teach students, evaluate the education marketplace, and exercise fiduciary responsibilities at the state and district levels...more>>

EdSurge: After Layoffs and Acquisition, LightSail Education Charts a New, Uncertain Course
As LightSail Education charts a new course, the New York City-based developer of K-12 literacy software has had to make some difficult, unpleasant decisions over the holidays, EdSurge has learned...more>>

EdSurge: Amazon Tries Its Hand in School Procurement
Leigh Hansen says she got her school district an Amazon Business account in 2016 mostly for the curriculum department...more>>

EdWeek Market Brief: K-12 Publishers' Sales Slip, But States' Buying Cycles May Be to Blame
Sales in the pre-K through grade 12 market among major publishers have fallen slightly over the past year, the third straight year of decline, according to new data released by a leading industry association...more>>

Getting Smart: Personalized Learning Meets AI With Watson Classroom
...IBM is clear about what makes Watson different than existing solutions. First of all, it is a cognitive partner; not a solution. Secondly, it does not require proprietary or additional assessments, curriculum, or content. It uses whatever a district has in place...more>>

TechCrunch: Edtech company Kidaptive raises $19.1 million for its adaptive learning platform
Edtech startup Kidaptive, an adaptive-learning company that begin its life with a suite of curriculum-focused iPad games for kids, announced today it has closed on $19.1 million in Series C funding, in a round led by Formation 8 and Korean education company Woongjin ThinkBig...more>>

Business Insider: Tech workers in Silicon Valley are sending their kids to a $28,000-a-year private school that shuns technology
At Basis Independent Silicon Valley, a Bay Area private school that enrolls many children of tech workers, students graduate with a mastery of all things science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). But they don't get much screen time in the classroom...more>>

The 74: Harvard-MIT Personalized Learning Program to Help Early Readers Gets $30M From Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
A new initiative aimed at transforming reading intervention for early learners is receiving $30 million from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative with the goal of creating a scalable program that can help students nationwide...more>>

Forbes: Zuckerberg Invests in On-Demand Education Site Varsity Tutors in $50 Million Fundraise
On-demand tutoring site Varsity Tutors has raised a $50 million Series C funding round, led by Learn Capital and joined by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) and Technology Crossover Ventures, the firm which led the startup's Series B round...more>>

EdTech: Principals Believe in the Power of Technology, but Schools Face Challenges Ahead
EdTech: A whopping 90 percent of principals surveyed in a recent MDR EdNET Insight report say they believe that technology is integral to student learning...more>>

Forbes: Online Learning Wins Out Over Textbooks in Boosting Science Scores
Online lessons can enhance students' understanding of science and help underachieving students close the gap with their peers, according to a new study...more>>

Higher Ed

EDUCAUSE Review: Top 10 IT Issues, 2018: The Remaking of Higher Education
The 2018 Top 10 IT Issues show how digital technology is remaking higher education through four key themes: institutional adaptiveness, improved student outcomes, improved decision-making, and IT adaptiveness...more>>

EdDive: What is the future of for-profit higher ed?
The business model of the future is one that combines for-profit and traditional models together...more>>

Chronicle: Inside the Trends Report
Welcome to The Chronicle's fourth annual Trends Report. At a time when colleges, like much of the nation, are experiencing deep political and social upheaval, it's easy to become distracted - and reactive...more>>

Economist: Why governments have overestimated the economic returns of higher education
Automation and globalisation have brought drastic changes to Western labour markets. Middle-skilled jobs are disappearing fast. in America, wages for blue-collar workers have been largely stagnant since the 1970s, whereas those for university graduates have soared...more>>

Chronicle: How Russian Trolls Used Higher Ed to Sow Discord Online
At least 129 Twitter accounts associated with a Kremlin-aligned propaganda outfit, the Internet Research Agency, or IRA, tweeted and retweeted about issues pertinent to higher education from 2015 to 2017, according to a Chronicle analysis of IRA-associated tweets made available by NBC News (tweets now deleted by Twitter along with the troll accounts)...more>>

Inside Higher Ed: Demonstrating Value
Robert Kelchen, an emerging scholar and expert on higher education, discusses his new book on what the accountability push means for higher education...more>>

Observatory: University, college or higher ed. Which one do you trust?
Usually, people refer to higher education as college, university, post-secondary education or just as higher education. Some of those words might represent the same thing, although Americans have more confidence in certain words. Gallup study revealed 36% of Americans have a great deal of confidence in "higher education" compared to 23% who have confidence in "colleges and universities."...more>>

Chronicle: How to Sway Higher Ed's Skeptics
Many Americans today are skeptical about the value of higher education. Last summer, a study from the Pew Research Center found that only 55 percent of Americans say that colleges "have a positive effect on the way things are going in this country."...more>>

Chronicle: Is Student Debt Big Enough to Hold Back the Economy? What the Research Says
Student-loan debt has reached such formidable levels that it could hold back economic growth. That was the warning U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome H. Powell gave to members of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee on Thursday...more>>

Hechinger: If this bill passes, college affordability would go from bad to worse, experts say
House Republicans' proposal would cut back loans, tighten repayment options and let for-profit colleges become 100 percent federally funded...more>>

Hechinger: A college degree, or your money back
A growing number of colleges and universities are guaranteeing a job after graduation...more>>

WSJ: The Rise of the Jumbo Student Loan
Most students with loan balances exceeding $50,000 in 2010 had failed to pay down any debt four years later...more>>

The Atlantic: College Debt, Without the Degree
Almost a third of Americans who take out loans to pay for their education don't end up getting a diploma...more>>

NAFSSA: Report Finds Lower Completion Rates for Students in Two-Year Institutions, Adult Learners
The study, "Completing College: A State-level View of Student Completion Rates," analyzed the graduation rates of more than 2.2 million students who enrolled in post-secondary institutions in 2011...more>>

EdDive: Initiative aims to boost US college graduation rates by 'hundreds of thousands'
The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities announced a new effort in which 100 public research universities - organized in clusters of eight to 10 institutions - will work together to increase graduation rates by hundreds of thousands by 2025...more>>

EdSurge: Without Addressing Basic Needs, Student Success Strategies Fall Short
College advisors and education leaders gathered in Nashville, Tenn., this week to discuss how to get more nontraditional students-such as full- and part-time workers, parents and other underrepresented groups-to and through college...more>>

EdDive: Students often need help getting to graduation
More than half of college students fit the "nontraditional" mold, and are older than 24, married, are in the military or veterans, have children, work full-time or are financially independent. A new study from the Institute for Women's Policy Research, notes that within this group, 55% of women, as well as 55% of minorities, enrolled in college are considered nontraditional...more>>

Reuters: Education group Pearson sees brighter future with new 'Spotify' approach
Educational publisher Pearson (PSON.L) expects its underlying profit to increase for the first time in six years in 2018 after rebuilding its business for students of the "Spotify generation" who want to rent rather than buy books...more>>

TechCrunch: College for the 21st century
Faster + cheaper pathways to good first jobs are poised to supplant slow, expensive bachelor's degrees (particularly from non-selective colleges and universities) in Gen Z's affections. Gen Z has already been prejudiced against large upfront investments. Why buy a car when you can summon one with an app? Why subscribe to a cable bundle when you can stream individual networks and shows? The sharing economy will not leave the $500 billion higher-education sector unscathed...more>>

EdSurge: After Mysterious End to New Media Consortium, Educause Buys Up Group's Assets
On Wednesday a bankruptcy court approved the sale of the New Media Consortium's assets to Educause, just 2 months after NMC abruptly ceased operations due to financial troubles that remain largely mysterious...more>>

The EvoLLLution: Stackable and Sub-Degree: How Postsecondary Institutions Can Support the Middle-Skill Economy
By identifying job market needs and providing programming aimed at helping to retool the skill sets required for middle-skill jobs, universities and colleges can help middle-skilled workers increase their earning potential while cashing in on a lucrative new revenue stream...more>>

Boston Globe: When will technology disrupt higher education?
in the early 1990s, at the dawn of the Internet era, an explosion in academic productivity seemed to be around the corner. But the corner never appeared. Instead, teaching techniques at colleges and universities, which pride themselves on spewing out creative ideas that disrupt the rest of society, have continued to evolve at a glacial pace...more>>

EdSurge: Higher Education Joins the Blockchain Party
At an EdSurge meetup hosted on February 7 in Berkeley, three panelists gave their thoughts on how blockchain might be implemented in higher-ed, and shared the risks that those experimenting in the space must prepare for...more>>

Inside Higher Ed: Confusion Over Distance Education Rules
Colleges seek guidance about looming federal requirement for online colleges to tell students whether academic programs meet licensing requirements in their home states...more>>

EdSurge: Office of Edtech Wants Help Making Sense of All Those Higher Ed Providers
At a panel session at SXSW EDU on Tuesday, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos asked speakers what they might do if they had her job for a day. Now, the Education Department's Office of Educational Technology is soliciting ideas from, well, everyone in what's been named the "Higher Education Ecosystem Challenge."...more>>

The Washington Post: Education inspector general raises concerns over GOP higher ed plan
The U.S. Department of Education's inspector general is cautioning Congress against provisions in the House Republican higher education bill that would repeal regulations holding colleges and universities accountable for the use of federal student aid...more>>

Huff Post/Hechinger: GOP Education Bill Would Make College Even Less Affordable for Many, Experts Say
A bill proposed by Republicans in the House of Representatives could change the college-financing system dramatically, moving billions of dollars out of financial aid programs...more>>

Politico: Trump administration fights states' crackdown on student loan collectors
The Trump administration is taking steps to shield student loan collection companies from state regulators, over the objections of consumer advocates and even some Republican attorneys general...more>>

EdDive: How much do Trump and Congress agree on higher ed funding priorities?
The U.S. Department of Education is requesting $59.9 billion in the FY2019 federal budget, a 10.5% decrease (or $7 billion less) from FY2017 for K-12 and higher education. However, according to analysis from New America, an addendum attached to the budget plan calls for a cut of $3.8 billion, or 5.6%, which reflects the actual spending deal Congress struck last week...more>>

McKinsey Quarterly: Shaking up the leadership model in higher education
Economic pressures, digital disruption, and rising job complexity are prompting universities to seek more "outsider" leaders for their top jobs...more>>

The EvoLLLution: Declining College Enrollment from Traditional-Age Students Will Hit Hard: Are Adult Students the Answer?
in a new book by Nathan Grawe entitled Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education, the author develops a higher education demand index (HEDI) that looks at the slowing growth in the number of traditional-age students graduating from high school...more>>

Inside Higher Ed: Global Boom in Private Enrollments
in many countries, public higher education no longer dominates, report finds...more>>

The EvoLLLution: From FOCUS to Artificial Intelligence: How Data Has Changed in Higher Education
As access to data, and expectations around its availability, have evolved in higher education, so too have the role and responsibilities of professionals charged with managing and analyzing the information...more>>

EdTech: 4 Things Experts Want You to Know About Blockchain in Higher Ed
The electronic ledger software holds a lot of potential for university data...more>>

EdDive: Should public universities privatize given state budget constraints?
The University of Pittsburgh has watched its state funding dwindle from covering 35% of operations in the 1970s to 7% in 2018, a trend not likely to change soon. This academic year's $144.2 million state appropriation was delayed by four months, and a proposed 2018-19 Pennsylvania budget calls to hold funding flat for a third straight year...more>>

Wharton: Can the Minerva Model of Learning Disrupt Higher Education?
Minerva Schools' CEO Ben Nelson and Wharton's Jerry Wind discuss Minerva's disruptive business model...more>>

The Nation: Disaster Capitalism Hits Higher Education in Wisconsin
The president of the University of Wisconsin System is trying to reconcile a well-funded assault on public institutions with the state's deep blue sea of support for accessible education...more>>

Hechinger: America's colleges and universities have a serious revenue problem
Trimming costs or enrolling more students can't cure what higher education faces - but these other steps might...more>>

WSJ: U.S. Colleges Are Separating Into Winners and Losers
Schools that struggle to prepare students for success losing ground; 'The shake-out is coming'...more>>

University Business: The higher ed admissions data pitch
Playing with big-league data to approach and attract students...more>>

University Business: Why colleges should start expecting the unexpected
Institutions work to shore up network defenses as hackers search for new vulnerabilities to exploit...more>>

Forbes: The Demise of The Full-Time MBA
for nearly two decades, Clayton Christensen of the Harvard Business School has been predicting that disruptive innovations would impact management education-and that even the likes of the Harvard Business School would feel their might...more>>

Gallup & Strada Education Network: Why Higher Ed?
New insights from the Strada-Gallup Education Consumer Survey examine the main motivations driving students' decisions to pursue postsecondary education [registration required for download]...more>>

Inside Higher Ed: Look Who's Championing the Degree
Coursera and other purveyors of massive open online courses supposedly signaled the end of traditional credentials and, as some told it, universities. Now the company is betting big on both...more>>

EdSurge: in Move Towards More Online Degrees, Coursera Introduces Its First Bachelor's
When free online courses known as MOOCs began to take off in 2012, their pitch to investors often included jargon around "disrupting" the way education is accessed and consumed...more>>

Forbes:'MicroMasters' Surge As MOOCs Go From Education to Qualification.
The future shape of graduate and executive education is coming into focus with the surge of "MicroMasters" certificate programs on edX, to which 1.7 million students have registered in a year. The number of programs on offer has exploded from one to 46 during this time...more>>

Class Central's Best Online Courses of 2017
The results are in! in 2015, Class Central first published a ranking of the best online courses of the year based on reviews from our users. We did it again in 2016. Now we are back with a list of the best online courses of 2017...more>>

Ed Dive: Grand Canyon's nonprofit conversion approved
for-profit Christian college Grand Canyon University has secured approval from the Higher Learning Commission, its regional accreditor, to become a nonprofit institution, university officials said in a statement today...more>>

EdDive: University formed from Purdue's acquisition of Kaplan clears last regulatory hurdle
Purdue University Global, the institution formed by Purdue's groundbreaking acquisition of for-profit Kaplan University in April 2017, received final approval from the Higher Learning Commission Monday...more>>

Journal & Courier: Lingering questions on Purdue-Kaplan deal, regulators' records reveal
With Purdue closing in on bid to buy online Kaplan U, new documents show a review team still had questions about the deal, what a Purdue degree means and lawsuits...more>>

Republic Report: New Fraud Suit Targets Call Center That Pushes Students to Predatory Colleges
A former employee of a call center that pushed students into predatory for-profit colleges has initiated a blockbuster whistleblower lawsuit on behalf of taxpayers against his former employer, Utah-based EduTrek, and against numerous for-profit colleges that have used the company to recruit new students...more>>

Chronicle: Education Dept. Knew of Whistle-Blower Complaint Before Easing Restrictions on for-Profit College
Weeks before the Education Department sent a letter to a for-profit college in Illinois saying it would relax requirements for institutions affected by a troubled accreditor's loss of federal recognition, the department was alerted that the institution might be abusing federal financial-aid rules...more>>

EdDive: for-profit certificate earners would be better off not attending college at all, study finds
Students earning vocational career and technical education certificates at public community colleges are faring better than for-profit students on nearly every economic measure, according to a forthcoming study from The Journal of Human Resources...more>>

Et Alia

Observatory: Top tech trends for 2018
During the media day at CES 2018, in Las Vegas, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) unveiled the tech trends to watch this year: 5G, artificial intelligence, robotics, smart cities, digital healthcare, and virtual reality...more>>

Inc: New Stanford Study: A Positive Attitude Literally Makes Your Brain Work Better
A new brain scan study has revealed exactly how positivity affects the brain (and it's impressive)...more>>

NYT: Report: Inequality Remains 50 Years After Kerner Report
Barriers to equality are posing threats to democracy in the U.S. as the country remains segregated along racial lines and child poverty worsens, says a study examining the nation 50 years after the release of the landmark 1968 Kerner Report...more>>

MIT Review: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2018
Dueling neural networks. Artificial embryos. AI in the cloud. Welcome to our annual list of the 10 technology advances we think will shape the way we work and live now and for years to come...more>>

Motley Fool: The New Economy: Technology Trends for 2018
Information technology has grown into the largest sector of the economy for a reason...more>>

Venture Beat: Stanford students protest Apple over device addiction, demand OS fixes
A group of Stanford University students launched a public protest against Apple this weekend, claiming that Apple has failed to take "common sense" steps to curb technology addiction, reports the Stanford Daily...more>>

TechCrunch: Degreed gets $42M to help build a tool to help employees learn the right skills
When an employee is looking to advance in their career, where they work might have a kind of strict hierarchical path for the role they're in and what titles come next - but there's a good chance that employee might want to try something new without leaving their company...more>>

The EvoLLLution: Continuing Education Departments: A Portal to the Greater University
Continuing education departments deliver a smooth and user-centric experience that serves the needs of businesses and individuals and provides them with a portal into the larger university...more>>

University Ventures: Stonehenge
One of the most overlooked aspects of contemporary American higher education is how the largest employer of new college graduates is a rental car company. Enterprise Rent-A-Car expects to hire 8,500 newly minted grads this year: 70% more than the next largest employer...more>>

HRDive: American Council on Education partners with Credly on portable digital worker credentials
With a $1.5 million grant from the Lumina Foundation, Credly and the American Council on Education have announced an initiative that will provide portable, digital credentialing for workers, no matter where the learning occurs, according to a press release...more>>

The EvoLLLution: Closing the Skills Gap One MOOC at a Time: How Google is Transforming the Lifelong Learning Environment
The skills gap is currently one of the defining features of the labor market. There are hundreds of thousands of middle-skill jobs available but few individuals with the skills and education to fill them. These jobs need less education than a full degree program, and alternative providers like bootcamps have been active in helping to serve this market. Now, Google has entered the fray...more>>

HBR: How CEOs Without College Degrees Got to the Top
Employers are continually upping the ante on academic credentials. Nearly a third of jobs that once required only a high-school diploma now demand a four-year college degree, while one in four jobs that used to require a bachelor's degree now require a master's degree...more>>

Forbes: Why Many Millennials Are Turning to the Internet for Education
A recent study conducted by the Mayo Clinic took a deeper look at how millennials learn. What researchers discovered was that the elements that make millennials thrive in a learning environment were collaboration, feedback, technology and mentorship...more>>

WSJ: Why an Honors Student Wants to Skip College and Go to Trade School
As worries about student debt rise, states and businesses increasingly push faster, cheaper paths to the workplace; parents are stumped...more>>

CLO: The College Oversell Crisis
A middle-class level of wealth should not be a matter of degrees...more>>

HBR: Why the Best Internal Candidate Might Be from an Unlikely Part of the Company
Nearly a decade since Gallup released its bible, Strengths-Based Leadership, which asserts that great leaders are always investing in strengths, we are learning that the opposite may also be true...more>>

HBR: Stay-at-Home Moms Are Half as Likely to Get a Job Interview as Moms Who Got Laid Off
Reentering the workforce after taking a leave of absence can be difficult, but is it harder for workers who lost their jobs and have been unemployed or workers who took time away to care for children?...more>>

Brookings: Why are young, educated men working less?
The proportion of U.S. adults in paid work has declined in recent decades. While the fall in male employment gets the most attention, female work rates are declining too...more>>

Inside Higher Ed: Overconfident Students, Dubious Employers - Inside Higher Ed
A new study identifies the gaps between graduates' views of their skills and the views of those who hire them...more>>

EdDive: Survey: Americans not confident colleges can prepare them for AI-driven workforce
Americans are uncertain whether institutions can provide them with the skills needed to use AI. While 51% of employed U.S. adults believe they would need additional education to obtain a new job should they lose their current one to technology, only 18% are "extremely confident" they could obtain the necessary education...more>>

HBR: How Tech Companies Can Help Upskill the U.S. Workforce
Software businesses are disrupting generations-old industries, from agriculture to entertainment. Programming wizards are amassing billion-dollar fortunes, and this may be just the beginning. Even average tech employees in their mid-twenties are raking in 6-figure paychecks...more>>

HR Technologist: Cornerstone OnDemand and Institute for the Future Team Up to Identify Skill Gaps
Innovation tomorrow, is powered by research today - that's why learning and HCM solutions provider Cornerstone OnDemand is partnering with Institute for the Future. The Palo Alto-based think tank will help the Cloud expert uncover emerging skills requirement that would one day prove invaluable...more>>

The EvoLLLution: Injecting Creativity and Breaking Down Siloes: How Universities Can Grow their Share of the Corporate Learning Market
Given the lucrative potential of the corporate education space, it's in the best interests of colleges and universities to adjust their approach to customized training programming and better meet the needs of their prospective clients...more>>

NYT: Tech's Ethical 'Dark Side': Harvard, Stanford and Others Want to Address It
The medical profession has an ethic: First, do no harm. Silicon Valley has an ethos: Build it first and ask for forgiveness later...more>>

EdSurge: in Search of OER's Future and Edtech's Missing Evidence at SXSW EDU
Speakers at this week's SXSW EDU conference in Austin wasted no time before diving into taboo topics. "Looking at those two girls making out in the doorway again, I thought, why can't I be as confident as they clearly are," Tim Manley, a former New York City high school teacher, said in an opening keynote session, to lots of laughs, as he recounted his humbling, trying first-year teaching experience...more>>

EdSurge: Want to Find Great Edtech Talent? Look in Unusual Places
Having trouble filling a senior role? Consider looking for someone from another industry outside of education...more>>

Inside Higher Ed: A University-Run School District?
Ball State administrators and professors see huge upside for Indiana students in proposal, but they are also entering larger debates over public schools, union rights and local elections...more>>

EdSurge: Are AI-Powered Chatbot Tutors the Future of Textbooks?
The mellow atmosphere at this year's SXSW EDU didn't stop Day 3 keynoter Danah Boyd from lighting up Twitter and sparking countless conference-floor conversations on the merits of media literacy and how to think critically about critical thinking...more>>

EdSurge: The Newest U.S. Education Technology Venture Fund? Look to Japan
It's no secret that Asian capital fuels American business. That's especially true in education technology, where last year EdSurge revealed that Asia-based financiers are increasingly investing in U.S. edtech venture firms as limited partners...more>>

Observatory: Jennifer Groff and the power of game-based learning, in an interview for the Observatory
Jennifer Groff, research assistant and Ph.D. candidate at the MIT Media Lab and the MIT Education Arcade, answered some questions about the effectiveness of game-based learning environments...more>>

EdSurge: Big Names, Brash Claims at SF Edtech Industry Pitch Event
From comments about a hurricane wiping out an education system, to loud chatters drowning out a presentation on federal policies and regulations, the brashness of Silicon Valley was on display...more>>

Observatory: The most innovative education companies of 2018
Fast Company has revealed the list of the most innovative companies of 2018. The leader in the education sector is CommonBond, the student loan relief company. Duolingo and Coursera are also included in the top 10...more>>

MarketWatch: Fewer Americans are majoring in education, but will students pay the price?
College students hitting the books these days are far less likely to be learning about teaching - and that could be putting future generations' educational attainment at risk...more>>

EdSurge: for Experiential Learning Programs to Thrive, They Must Bridge K-12 and Higher Ed (and the Workforce)
in a strong job market that values both experience and educational credentials, interest is growing in experiential learning models that fuse traditional academic study with real-world projects and work experiences...more>>

PE Hub: Why private equity investors are betting on digital education
Digital streaming services such as Spotify and Netflix have forever changed the business of music and movies. Now, that same approach is slowly transforming education publishing. Those hefty textbooks weighing down kids' book bags all over the U.S. could become a thing of the past...more>>

EdSurge: Chalkup, a Class Collaboration Tool, Will Close Shop and Become Part of Microsoft Teams
Microsoft has acquired what it calls an "exclusive licensing" to the technology used in Chalkup, a collaboration platform where teachers can organize, annotate, share and grade digital coursework with students...more>>

Chalkbeat: to fight poverty in U.S., Bill and Melinda Gates say they may move beyond education
Bill and Melinda Gates say they are rethinking how they address poverty in the U.S. - a move that could have them expand their influential philanthropic efforts beyond education...more>>

EdDive: Top 6 education priorities of US governors
The Education Commission of the States produced a report on the nation's six K-12 and higher education priorities, as outlined in an analysis of State of the State addresses by more than 40 governors...more>>

Mass Live: Elizabeth Warren, Katherine Clark release report criticizing Betsy DeVos' work at Education Department
Members of Massachusetts' congressional delegation who have previously raised concerns about Betsy DeVos leading the Department of Education, released a new report Thursday suggesting that the secretary's tenure has "been a boon for shady for-profit colleges, student loan companies and school privatization advocates."...more>>

EdDive: Trump budget plan would cut grants to support education data systems
President Donald Trump's proposal to eliminate the State Longitudinal Data System (SLDS) grant program would hinder states' progress in building and improving systems that track students' educational journeys from early childhood through transition into the workforce, data experts say...more>>