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K-12

EdWeek Market Brief: Fast Company Names Most Innovative Education Companies of 2019
Teachers Pay Teachers, an online marketplace for lesson plans and classroom materials, has been named the most innovative education company in 2019 by the business magazine Fast Company...more>>

EdWeek Market Brief: New Buying Guide Aims to Show Educators How to Improve Ed-Tech Purchasing
School districts and teachers deluged with ed-tech options now can access a new buying guide from ISTE and Project Unicorn. It's designed to give administrators and educators ideas about how to select the best products for their instructional purposes...more>>

EdDive: SXSW EDU 2019: Educators discuss transformation strategy, neuroscience-based approach
Couldn't make it to Austin? Get caught up on conversations around community, media literacy and more...more>>

VentureBeat: Google announces Chromebook App Hub to help teachers find apps and activities for their classrooms
Google's efforts to infiltrate the lucrative education sphere appear to be on track, with the company recently revealing some fresh numbers to demonstrate its growing clout in the classroom: 80 million students and educators globally use G Suite for Education, while 40 million are using Google Classroom, a web-based service that connects teachers and learners to share information, assignments, and more...more>>

VentureBeat: Amazon targets computer science courses for over 1,000 underprivileged U.S. schools
Amazon wants to train the computer scientists of tomorrow. To that end, the Seattle retailer today announced that it'll bring computer science courses to more than 1,000 U.S. high schools in underprivileged communities across all 50 state...more>>

EdSurge: Investment in Early Learners Is on the Rise
As venture capitalists and private-equity firms continue to invest billions of dollars in education, they're increasingly directing their funds to early childhood development, a long-neglected subset of the education population, according to a panel of impact investors this week at SXSW EDU...more>>

EdDive: Study: Student homelessness hits all-time high
During the 2016-17 academic year, 1,355,821 public school students - the highest number ever recorded and an increase of 70% over the past 10 years - experienced homelessness, according to federal data released last week...more>>

Forbes: What Teachers Need To Know About The Science Of Learning--And What They Don't
Lately there's been a push to acquaint educators with "the science of learning." But only some aspects of that science actually help teachers do their jobs. Others just waste their time...more>>

Real Clear Education: Graduation Inflation is Harming Students
Last month, the Department of Education released data showing that, yet again, American high school graduation rates have increased. This sparked a wave of celebratory press coverage across the country...more>>

EdDive: Study: Adopting new textbook doesn't increase students' math achievement
Simply adopting a new textbook, even if it's in line with the Common Core State Standards, does not result in an increase in student achievement, according to a study released Monday by the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University...more>>

Chalkbeat: This personalized learning program was supposed to boost math scores. It didn't, new study finds
A program that Bill Gates once called "the future of math" didn't improve state test scores at schools that adopted it, according to a new study...more>>

Technical.ly: Here's a roadmap for increasing access to computer science
Code.org COO Cameron Wilson laid out specific policy changes and strategies to help diversify access to tech in K-12 schools...more>>

EdDive: SXSW EDU 2019: Making school safety more proactive and teaching students to learn from failure
The final full day of Austin's ed innovation gathering also featured a discussion of Reconstruction's lasting impacts and a handful of big announcements...more>>

Education Week: Education Donors Shift Priorities, Survey Suggests
Education philanthropy groups may be moving away from big new investments in areas with a K-12 academic focus-teacher preparation, turnaround of low-performing schools, new school models, and the like-in favor of "whole learner" investments, according to a new survey of education funders...more>>

NEPC: A Consumer's Guide to Testing under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA): What Can the Common Core and Other ESSA Assessments Tell Us?
Between May and August of 2018, the federal government approved 44 proposals submitted by state departments of education to meet testing and accountability requirements under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) of 2015...more>>

Hechinger: A cheaper, quicker approach to social-emotional learning?
Harvard researcher to put her "kernels" to the scientific test in California...more>>

EdSurge: Google's AI Assistant Fund Invests in GradeSlam to Make Online Tutoring More Equitable
Online tutoring services are a dime a dozen, and in recent times they've raised many dimes. Since 2016, these companies have raised more than $1.2 billion in venture capital, according to EdSurge data-most notably Chinese startups that connect local students with English tutors...more>>

EdSurge: Student Transportation App Zum Raises $40M in Series C Round
ZUM, an Uber-like rideshare company designed specifically for schoolchildren, has raised $40 million in a Series C round led by BMW i Ventures, Sequoia and Spark...more>>

NYT: F.T.C. Hits Musical.ly With Record Fine for Child Privacy Violation
The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday announced a $5.7 million settlement with Musical.ly, a popular video social network now known as TikTok, over accusations that the company's app illegally collected personal information about children...more>>

EdTech Review: Is AI Ready to Disrupt Dyslexia?
EdTech Review: A reading assessment tool, Lexplore, claims it has an innovative solution (using eye movements and AI) which allows educators to see how a child is reading. How is this technology changing young lives today and how will it benefit learners with dyslexia in the years ahead?...more>>

Hechinger: Teacher shortages force districts to use online education programs
When the computers are in charge, students complain 'ain't nobody really teaching'...more>>

EdSurge: Finally: Pearson Sells Its US K-12 Courseware Business-for $250 Million
Nearly a year after announcing the plan, Pearson has finally sold its U.S K-12 courseware business. The buyer: Nexus Capital Management, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm...more>>

Forbes: Education Micro-Credentials 101: Why Do We Need Badges?
Micro-credentials are one of the hot rising ideas in the education space. To understand the basics, go look at your child's Xbox or PlayStation...more>>

AEI: Is Career and Technical Education Just Enjoying Its 15 Minutes of Fame?
This report examines how much media attention toward career and technical education has grown and how that compares to other prominent 21st-century education reforms over the past two decades...more>>

EdWeek: How Digital Games Take the Stress Out of Formative Tests
Second grader Brooks Rudnik hunches over a screen, guiding a purple, sunglass-wearing character through an imaginary world called "Keenville...more>>

NCES: Projections of Education Statistics to 2027
Projections of Education Statistics to 2027 is the 46th in a series of publications initiated in 1964. This report provides national-level data on enrollment, teachers, high school graduates, and expenditures at the elementary and secondary level, and enrollment and degrees at the postsecondary level for the past 15 years and projections to the year 2027...more>>

EdDive: Students of color now the majority, but work remains to ensure culturally relevant materials
The Baltimore City Public Schools, the School District of Palm Beach County in Florida, and the School District of Philadelphia are among those working to revamp curriculum materials so they are more relevant to the diverse groups of students in their schools, according to a report released Thursday by Chiefs for Change...more>>

The Atlantic: The U.S. Teaching Population Is Getting Bigger, and More Female
Women now make up a larger share of educators than they have in decades...more>>

Education Week: Rural Students' Technology Access Still Lagging Behind, ACT Report Shows
Even though one in five students in U.S. public elementary and secondary schools live in a rural area, they are more often overlooked when it comes to education technology policy reform than their peers in non-rural communities, concludes a report by nonprofit organization ACT...more>>

Washington Post: Too many of America's public schools are crumbling - literally. Here's one plan to fix them.
Every school day, some 50 million students and 6 million adults go to nearly 100,000 public schools across the country, amounting to about 1 in 6 Americans. Too many of them enter buildings that are crumbling - literally - and that suffer from problems, including poor air and water quality, mold...more>>

EdSurge: Chief Privacy Officers: The Unicorns of K-12 Education
Last month, the nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) published a report arguing schools and districts should go the way of other industries and hire a Chief Privacy Officer to oversee their organization's privacy policies and practices...more>>

HuffPost: 'Safety' In U.S. Schools Means More Cops And Fewer Counselors
About 14 million students attend a school without a single counselor, nurse, psychologist or social worker, according to a new report...more>>

Chalkbeat: 'Not a proud moment': How turmoil at one school could shake up the Achievement First charter network
Turmoil at an Achievement First high school has escalated into a larger reckoning for the charter school network spanning three states...more>>

Chalkbeat: Almost 10,000 students went to this online school last year. 851 stayed the whole time
Nearly 10,000 students attended Indiana Virtual School at some point last school year, but about 91 percent didn't stay for an entire year, new data released by Daleville public schools show...more>>

The 74: 3 States Tried to Shutter Failing For-Profit Online Charter Schools. A Suspicious Pattern of Allegations, Accusations, and Legal Complaints Quickly Followed
On their face, the allegations describe public officials being bought - and for a pittance. Drinks in a hotel lobby...more>>

Education Week: Four Things to Watch for in Trump's 2020 Spending Plan for Schools
This week, President Donald Trump is due to release his budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year. It will be the third time Trump makes a pitch for how much to spend-or whether to spend money at all-on things ranging from school choice and school safety to teacher training and civil rights enforcement...more>>

Education Week: New Report Ranks Which States Give Babies the Strongest Start in Life
The state a baby is born in makes a big difference in whether that child gets a good start in life, according to a new report...more>>

NYT: Betsy DeVos Backs $5 Billion in Tax Credits for School Choice
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Thursday pitched a $5 billion federal tax credit that would fund scholarships to private schools and other educational programs, throwing her weight behind what will be a difficult legislative undertaking to fund the Trump administration's signature education initiative...more>>

EdDive: The 50 States of Education Policy: February marks strides in school safety, funding
The one-year anniversary of the Parkland shooting and persisting teacher activism spurred major proposals, while politicians also prioritized other topics, such as school funding...more>>

Governors Tout K-12 Education as a Priority in Budgets for Coming Year
Last year's elections brought a wave of turnover to governors' offices around the country, and many of the new occupants have wasted no time in making their ambitions for education policy known...more>>

Higher Ed

Hechinger: Despite high costs, new poll shows most young adults think a four-year degree is worth it
Those most likely to suffer the burden of college debt believe it's usually worth the investment...more>>

EdDive: SXSW EDU 2019: Why digital transformation in higher ed is not 'an open playing field'
Tightening budgets and changing student demographics are important drivers, but the threat of oversight may be the biggest catalyst of all...more>>

Arizona Republic: How Michael Crow took ASU from a party school to the nation's 'most innovative' university
ASU president has a chip on his shoulder and a passion for bringing higher education to first-generation students...more>>

EdDive: Embedding certifications in degrees is gaining ground, but will the practice go mainstream?
Momentum is building beyond community colleges for offering industry credentials through the curriculum, but a lack of standardization and uptake present challenges...more>>

EdSurge: Can Online Education Lower Costs and Improve Quality?
Inspired by the breakout podcast Serial, four years ago two digital learning leaders at the University of Central Florida created their own podcast-focused on online learning instead of true crime...more>>

Forbes: Why Goodwill (Not Udacity, EdX Or Coursera) May Be The World's Biggest MOOC
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) stormed onto the education scene years ago with great fanfare. And they continue to be written and talked about extensively...more>>

The Atlantic: The Stigma of Choosing Trade School Over College
When college is held up as the one true path to success, parents-especially highly educated ones-might worry when their children opt for vocational school instead...more>>

EdSurge: Turnitin to Be Acquired by Advance Publications for $1.75B
A company best known (and sometimes rebuked) for its plagiarism checker has just received one of the biggest checks in the education technology industry...more>>

eCampus News: How can higher ed address the soft skills gap?
The soft skills gap is troubling, and while a study shows that the majority of corporate and academic respondents feel their new recruits and students are prepared with hard skills, more than 40 percent of corporations and almost 50 percent of academic institutions said new hires lack the soft skills to perform at a high level in a professional environment...more>>

EdDive: How many colleges and universities have closed since 2016?
We're keeping track of major college and university closings, mergers, acquisitions and other consolidation from 2016 to the present...more>>

The Week: Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman charged in wild college admissions cheating scheme
More than 40 people have been charged in connection with an alleged college entrance cheating scam - including actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman...more>>

The Education Trust: Broken Mirrors
If America's public colleges and universities are supposed to be true democratic engines of opportunity and social mobility, their student body and graduates should at least mirror the racial and ethnic demographics of the state in which they reside...more>>

Inside Higher Ed: Another Small New England College Closes
Facing a demographic spiral and a challenge to its accreditation, tiny Southern Vermont College says it will close its doors...more>>

NYT: Alternative Colleges, and Their 'Radical, Communal Ideas,' Fight for a Future
The office of the Hampshire College president, Miriam Nelson, looked as if she were hosting a big sleepover earlier this month, with sleeping bags everywhere and students sprawled in chairs using laptops, their towels hanging in the president's private bathroom...more>>

WSJ: America's Disappearing Private Colleges
The post-Great Recession baby bust will soon mean not enough students to keep small schools alive...more>>

EdDive: Giving to higher ed will slow in 2019, Moody's predicts
Public universities are "gaining momentum" in giving, with donations rising a median 8.8% during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018, according to a recent Moody's investor report...more>>

Observatory: Ripple Adds 11 New Universities to its $50 Million Blockchain Research Initiative
As the interest in blockchain is increasing, the world's top universities are venturing into the field through research of this technology and its applications...more>>

EdDive: IBM invests $2B for SUNY artificial intelligence hub
IBM will invest $2 billion in its New York footprint that will help create an artificial intelligence (AI) research center at the SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Albany, New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced last week...more>>

The Economist: Universities withstood MOOCs but risk being outwitted by OPMs
Most revenue from web degrees goes not to their providers but to middlemen...more>>

Inside Higher Ed: Another State Plans Online College
The University of Massachusetts System wants to compete with Southern New Hampshire and Purdue Global. Details on cost and strategy are still trickling in...more>>

Chronicle: The Rise of the Mega-University
While some so-called mega-universities have physical campuses, they've focused intensely on building online programs. They've emphasized recruiting working adults over fresh high-school graduates. They've embraced competency-based education, in which students earn credits from life experiences and from demonstrating proficiency in a subject...more>>

EdSurge: Blackboard Reaches Deal to Sell Its Payments and Transaction Tools
Transact division, which includes a suite of campus ID, payments, attendance and event management services used in higher-ed institutions...more>>

Campus Technology: Educause Releases Preview of 2019 Horizon Report
Higher education IT association Educause recently released a preview of its 2019 Horizon Report, an analysis of the trends and technology developments that are likely to impact higher ed in the short-, mid- and long-term future...more>>

EdDive: How colleges are using AI to save time on operations
Beyond aiding instruction, artificial intelligence is helping more institutions streamline back-end processes and organize information...more>>

Inside Higher Ed: Contract Awarded for New Student Borrower Website
The Office of Federal Student Aid this week awarded a five-year contract to Accenture Federal Services to handle the new web portal and other customer service functions, including a single intake center for borrowers who call or email with questions about their accounts...more>>

Inside Higher Ed: Online Students Multitask More (Not in a Good Way)
Study finds that even those who are inclined to stray do so less in face-to-face classes -- presumably because instructors and peers are watching. What are the implications for online learning? And is all multitasking bad?...more>>

Campus Technology: Instructure to Acquire Portfolium
Instructure, maker of the Canvas learning management system, announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire e-portfolio and student success company Portfolium...more>>

Chronicle: U. of California System Cancels Elsevier Subscriptions, Calling Move a Win for Open Access
The University of California system is calling it quits with Elsevier, one of the biggest academic publishers in the world, after months of contract negotiations...more>>

The Atlantic: The Real Cost of Knowledge
The University of California has broken with one of the world's largest academic publishers. Is this the end of a very profitable business model?...more>>

WSJ: Chinese Hackers Target Universities in Pursuit of Maritime Military Secrets
University of Hawaii, University of Washington and MIT are among schools hit by cyberattacks
Chinese hackers have targeted more than two dozen universities in the U.S. and around the globe as part of an elaborate scheme to steal research about maritime technology being developed for military use, cybersecurity experts and current and former U.S. officials said...more>>

US News: Senate Panel Wants Chinese-Funded Institutes to Change or Leave U.S.
China has provided over $158 million to U.S. schools for Confucius Institutes to promote Chinese culture, U.S. Senate investigators said on Wednesday, releasing a report saying the centers have acted as tightly controlled propaganda arms for Beijing and should be changed - or shut down...more>>

Inside Higher Ed: Research Study Sizes Up Tech Boot Camps
Boot camps have been hailed by policy makers as a cost-effective and fast way to provide workers with new tech skills, but research published last week highlights how little is known about these providers...more>>

Edsurge: Fullstack Academy Enters Extension School Market With First University Partnership
San Luis Obispo, Calif., may be better known for its wineries and golden coastline than its tech economy. But that could change, thanks to a partnership between one of the major universities in the area, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and Fullstack Academy, a coding bootcamp based in New York and Chicago...more>>

Class Central: Under Thrun, Udacity Revamps its Strategy
After a successful funding round in 2015, Udacity's valuation passed $1 billion, raising the company to unicorn status - a status that carries high expectations for growth...more>>

EdSurge: Much Ado About MOOCs: Where Are We in the Evolution of Online Courses?
A lot has changed since 2012 or, the year the New York Times dubbed the "Year of the MOOC."...more>>

TechCrunch: Sebastian Thrun initiates aggressive plan to transform Udacity
"I'm a fighter. I believe in our people, I believe in our mission, and I believe that it should exist and must exist"...more>>

NYT: A College Chain Crumbles, and Millions in Student Loan Cash Disappears
When the Education Department approved a proposal by Dream Center, a Christian nonprofit with no experience in higher education, to buy a troubled chain of for-profit colleges, skeptics warned that the charity was unlikely to pull off the turnaround it promised. What they didn't foresee was just how quickly and catastrophically it would fail...more>>

Inside Higher Ed: End of the Road for Argosy
Trump administration cuts off Title IV student aid for Argosy University campuses and blocks deal to go nonprofit after chain fails to make payments to thousands of students...more>>

EdDive: Will National American U's online pivot be enough to keep it alive?
The for-profit chain faces declining enrollment and a bleeding balance sheet, but success online is uncertain and sale prospects are limited...more>>

Campus Technology: Universities Collaborate to Close Gap Between College and Work
The University Innovation Alliance (UIA), a coalition of 11 public research universities focused on increasing the number and diversity of college graduates in the United States, is embarking on a new project to improve career readiness for at-risk students...more>>

ACE: Associate Degree Earners Are Earning More Money, Contributing More to Society, ACE Report Finds
A new research brief published by ACE highlights some of the key benefits to individuals, their families, and their communities of earning an associate degree...more>>

Century Foundation: How Much Education Are Students Getting for Their Tuition Dollar?
With frequent media reports about highly paid presidents and expensive college sports programs,1 observers have good reason to wonder: Are these colleges putting sufficient resources into educating students...more>>

Pew: 'Free College' Is Increasingly Popular - and Complicated for States
Julius Dancy's parents couldn't afford to send him to a four-year college. His high school grades, he admits, weren't great, so he didn't qualify for merit scholarships...more>>

The Atlantic: The College-Affordability Crisis Is Uniting the 2020 Democratic Candidates
Well, sort of...more>>

Bloomberg: Millennials Are Facing $1 Trillion in Debt
Student loans make up the majority of 19-29 years old debt...more>>

EdSurge: So You Want to Offer an Income-Share Agreement? Here's How 5 Colleges Are Doing It.
As the cost of college continues to feel out of reach for many students, schools and startups are beginning to think of new ways to finance the cost of tuition. Income-share agreements, or ISAs, are one method winning the attention of investors and education providers alike...more>>

BuzzFeed: How Student Debt Dragged A Generation Down - And What We Can Do About It
A social and financial divide is forming - between those who have student debt, and those who do not - that will have ramifications for decades to come...more>>

Hechinger: Americans don't realize state funding for higher ed is falling, new poll finds
In fact, spending is down, driving tuition up and frustrating the search for skilled workers...more>>

NPR: Federal Watchdog Issues Scathing Report On Ed Department's Handling Of Student Loans
A critical new report from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Inspector General finds the department's student loan unit failed to adequately supervise the companies it pays to manage the nation's trillion-dollar portfolio of federal student loans...more>>

Inside Higher Ed: Education Department Downshifts on Innovation Rule Changes
Under new proposals, the department would defer authority over innovation to accreditors less than it previously suggested...more>>

Et Alia

Cherry Tree: Education Transactions in February
For-profit education comprises more than 5% of the roughly $1.3 trillion that is spent on education in the U.S. annually. Cherry Tree created the Education For-Profit 50 Index representing a group of publicly traded for-profit education companies...more>>

McKinsey: Jobs lost, jobs gained: 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>>

Getting Smart: Critical Thinking - a Critical Skill in School and for the Future of Work
On this, business and education leaders can agree: We need to do a better job of developing critical thinking skills for learners and workers. That's the easy part. Now the hard part: Are we using the same label to describe a different set of skills?...more>>

Quartz: In The Future Of Work, Humans Will Still Be Wanted
The future of work is going to be about the acceleration of automation, the speed of skills changes and the rise of freelance work...more>>

Forbes: Five Insights From Davos On The Future Of Work
At the recent gathering of the World Economic Forum (WEF), re-skilling and flexible work emerged as key components of the future of work...more>>

Wired: The World Wide Web Turns 30. Where Does It Go From Here?
Today, 30 Years on from my original proposal for an information management system, half the world is online. It's a moment to celebrate how far we've come, but also an opportunity to reflect on how far we have yet to go...more>>

OECD: Getting Skills Right: Future-Ready Adult Learning Systems
With digitalisation, deepening globalisation and population ageing, the world of work is changing. The extent to which individuals, firms and economies can harness the benefits of these changes critically depends on the readiness of adult learning systems to help people develop relevant skills for this changing world of work...more>>

Forbes: Online Education: From Good To Better To Best?
...And now, fairly suddenly it seems, there are a growing number of cases where online education is actually outperforming its traditional classroom counterpart. Evidence of student success and, indeed preference, for the online classroom is mounting - and this will serve widespread benefits for all of us...more>>

HRDive: Was the skills gap based on a lie?
If you work in talent acquisition, you've likely heard about the skills gap. For many, its existence is simply a given - but one new study claims the fervor around the phenomenon may be based on a lie. According to a study recently presented at an American Economic Association conference, the skills gap was largely self-inflicted...more>>

CNBC: Over 2 million people have taken LinkedIn's most popular online course-here's the skill they're learning
In January, LinkedIn analyzed hundreds of thousands of job postings in order to determine which skills companies need most in 2019. They found that employers are actively looking for workers with both soft skills and hard technical skills and matched these skills with free LinkedIn Learning courses...more>>

EdDive: SHRM: 83% of employers struggled to recruit suitable candidates in past year
With a wide and worsening skills gap to contend with, 83% of HR professionals said they struggled with recruiting suitable candidates in the past 12 months, according to a new research study by the Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM)...more>>

VentureBeat: Wade & Wendy raises $7.6 million to help businesses automate hiring with chatbots
AI job-matching startups are more common than they used to be. Pymetrics comes to mind - it recently raised $40 million to expand its intelligent hiring product to new markets...more>>

Fast Company: Stanford professor: Don't let artificial intelligence pick your employees
Algorithms aren't sophisticated enough to make these strategic hiring decisions-yet...more>>

McKinsey: The silo syndrome
Working in silos can cause tunnel vision, tribalism, and weak corporate performance. What's a silo-buster to do?...more>>

HBR: The Feedback Fallacy
The debate about feedback at work isn't new. Since at least the middle of the last century, the question of how to get employees to improve has generated a good deal of opinion and research. But recently the discussion has taken on new intensity...more>>

HBR: Give Your Employees Specific Goals and the Freedom to Figure Out How to Reach Them
As more aspects of work become automated, it is increasingly important for people to focus on building skills that support creative and innovative tasks only human beings can perform...more>>

HRDive: BLS: Employees spent average of 34 days in on-the-job training in 2018
BLS: Employees spent average of 34 days in on-the-job training in 2018...more>>

Workforce: Reskilling: The New Trend in Recruiting
If you can't find new talent externally, consider using reskilling to build your new employees in-house...more>>

HBR: How to Get People to Pay Attention During Corporate Trainings
Companies in the U.S. spend over $160 billion on training and development, according to the Association for Talent Development...more>>

CLO: The 7 Trends Reshaping Talent Development
The most effective talent development teams will respond to these trends by making transformational changes in how they shape their workforce...more>>

CLO: How Tech Is Helping L&D Create More Time for Learning
The urgency to upskill exists among employees, but the time to do so may not. Here's how technology is helping...more>>

NPR: A New Benefit: Some Companies Help Workers Pay Down Student Loans
Kelly O'Brien graduated from college six years ago with a political science degree and $28,000 in student loan debt...more>>

LinkedIn: The 2019 Workplace Learning Report Finds That L&D is at a Tipping Point
As the modern workplace evolves, we see an imminent shift in the focus and influence of learning and development (L&D) professionals...more>>

HRDive: Cybersecurity association rolls out free development program for members
To help address a global shortage of cybersecurity talent, (ISC), a nonprofit member association of certified cybersecurity professionals, announced last week the creation of its Professional Development Institute (PDI)...more>>

The Atlantic: The Trump Administration Really Wants to Cut Education Funding. Congress Doesn't.
For the third year in a row, lawmakers are expected to disregard the administration's proposed budget...more>>

EdSurge: Judge, Jury and Education Startups: Reflections From the SXSW EDU Launch Competition
All the world's a stage when you're a startup, and life becomes a pitch in front of investors, advisers, reporters, partners and potential acquirers...more>>

VentureBeat: Google rolls out Grammar Suggestions to all G Suite customers
No need to worry if your tenses agree or if you've mistakenly ended a sentence with a preposition - if you're a G Suite user, that is. Google today announced that it's bringing Grammar Suggestions, an AI tool that recognizes (and offers to fix) stylistic and syntactical errors, to all G Suite Basic, Business, and Enterprise customers starting March 5...more>>

EdSurge: Google's AI Fund Leads $7M Round in Elsa to Help ESL Students Practice Pronunciation
...The funding will be used to expand the company's team of artificial intelligence scientists and engineers, and support its expansion in Japan, Indonesia and India through the establishment of a new Tokyo office...more>>

EdSurge: How to Get VC Funding by Being a 'Missionary, Not a Mercenary'
Evaluating the team running an edtech startup is the most critical step when considering investments, say two venture capitalists who will be coaches at the EdSurge Immersion Conference...more>>

The Atlantic: Workism Is Making Americans Miserable
For the college-educated elite, work has morphed into a religious identity-promising identity, transcendence, and community, but failing to deliver...more>>

Pew: Millennial life: How young adulthood today compares with prior generations
Over the past 50 years - from the Silent Generation's young adulthood to that of Millennials today - the United States has undergone large cultural and societal shifts...more>>

The Economist: Why children's lives have changed radically in just a few decades
Childhood has changed out of all recognition, says Barbara Beck. What does that mean for children, parents and society at large?...more>>

EdSurge: The Surprising, Research-Backed Benefits of Active Screen Time
If you had to guess how much time teenagers spend using screens outside of work each day, how many hours would you guess? Two? Four? How about nine?...more>>

VentureBeat: How the ESA's acting CEO views video game addiction
As general counsel of the Entertainment Software Association, Stanley Pierre-Louis was the top lawyer in the country for the trade group that protects the interests of the video game industry...more>>

CNN: Screen time for kids under 2 more than doubles, study finds
Screen time has more than doubled for children under 2 years old since 1997, a study published Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics found, with time spent in front of a TV as the main driver despite a changing screen landscape...more>>

Carnegie Mellon: Three Ways Studying Organic Chemistry Changes the Brain
Academic learning is about gaining new knowledge and skill, but only recently has it been possible to see new knowledge appear in a human brain...more>>

Education Week: Study: Too Many Structured Activities May Hinder Children's Executive Functioning
When children spend more time in structured activities, they get worse at working toward goals, making decisions, and regulating their behavior, according to a study...more>>

NYT: Using Arts Education to Help Other Lessons Stick
The arts can be a source of joy in a child's day, and also come in handy for memorizing times tables...more>>

Psych Central: Neuromyth: "Brain Training" Is Supported by Neuroscience
Online computer games promise to improve "memory, problem solving, concentration, speed of thinking, language, and visual-spatial recognition." They further promise that they "work your social skills, social awareness, self-awareness, and self-control" while you're having fun...more>>

EdSurge: US Edtech Investments Peak Again With $1.45 Billion Raised in 2018
For many U.S. cities and states, 2018 marked the wettest year on record. There was also plenty of rain in the education technology industry, where venture capitalists and private-equity investors unleashed a deluge of cash...more>>