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Mary Axelson, Editor

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April Feature: M&A ACTIVITY FROM CHERRY TREE

Beech Tree Private Equity Provides Funding to Learnlight
Barnes & Noble Education Acquires MBS Textbook Exchange
Excelligence Learning Corporation Acquires ChildCare Education Institute
TaskStream Agrees to Merge with Tk20
Business & Legal Resources Acquires Navis Learning
MasterClass Raises $35 Million
MakeBlock Raises $30 Million
Edlio Acquires Sangha
Nearpod Raises $21 Million
Examity Raises $21 Million
WayUp Raises $18.5 Million
Valencia Capital Acquires The Dawson Academy
Education Brands Acquires Ravenna Solutions
Voxy Raises $12 Million
CampusLogic Raises $10 Million
Transition Capital Partners Acquires Hayes Software Systems
Kiddom Raises $6.5 Million
The National Research Center for College & University Admissions Acquires Admittedly
Pear Deck Raises $4 Million
Motimatic Raises $3.4 Million
The University of Fredericton Acquires Don Sayers And Associates
CIBT Education Group Agrees to Acquire KGIC Assets


Recent BSG Activity (2016-2017):

LePort Schools, CEO
KIPP, Chief of Programs & Impact
Tibor Health (a University Ventures portfolio company), Chief Product Officer
Walton Family Foundation, Charter School Finance Officer
Elsevier, Head of Adaptive Solutions
Catapult Learning, VP Sales
Two CEO searches currently underway under non-disclosure agreements.

AltSchool, Chief Academic Officer (closed)
Cambridge Education Group, General Manager (closed)
American Public Education System (APUS), President (closed)
Burning Glass, VP Business Development (closed)
GEMS Education, Chief Financial Officer (closed)
OnCourse Learning, Chief Technology Officer; Chief Marketing Officer (both closed)
Center for the Collaborative Classroom, Chief Technology Officer (closed)
Human Capital Institute, Chief Learning Officer; Chief Marketing Officer (both closed)
Quad Partners, Chief Financial Officer; Chief Marketing Officer (both closed)
American Honors/Quad Learning, VP Business Development (closed)
Rosetta Stone, Chief Executive Officer (closed)
ILSC, Managing Director (closed)
Texas Teachers, Chief Revenue Officer (closed)
Penn Foster, EVP Business Solutions; General Counsel (both closed)
Achieve 3000/Insight Venture Partners, CFO; Chief Sales Officer (both closed)
DecisionDesk, CEO (closed)
Turnitin/Insight Venture Partners, SVP Sales (closed)
InsideTrack, SVP Program Development (closed)
Voyager Sopris Learning, President (closed)
Frontline Technologies/Insight Venture Partners, President and COO; VP Marketing (closed)
Cambridge Information Group, Executive Director, Pre-Collegiate, NYT EDUcation (closed)




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K-12
Education Week: BSG recruits California's top superintendent for AltSchool
After being named California's top superintendent for two years running, it's not all that surprising that the head of the 25,000-student Vista Unified school system in San Diego County is moving on.

But Devin Vodicka isn't leaving for a bigger district. Instead, he's going to work for AltSchool, a four-year old ed-tech startup...more>>
Education Week: What Makes a K-12 Ed-Tech Company's Salesforce Succeed
The results of a McKinsey & Company survey defy conventional wisdom about what leads to success for a sales team in the K-12 market...more>>
The 74th: What If All Public Schools Had an Authorizer? A New Proposal to Give More Autonomy - for More Accountability
State education leaders nationwide should consider implementing a charter school authorizer model for traditional public schools as they work to comply with the new Every Student Succeeds Act...more>>
Education Week: Success Traits of the Top Ed-Tech Sales People: McKinsey & Co. Findings
What differentiates the best sales reps from the worst in the K-12 marketplace?4-3

Hechinger: It's time to stop the clock on math anxiety. Here's the latest research on how Stanford expert details five problems we can solve to keep students on course and end the math madness...more>>
Tyton: What Strategies Will Help Your Company Scale the Peak?
The assessment and curriculum markets have each experienced less than 5% CAGR since 2013. However, an emerging set of integrated offerings - those that tightly embed assessment within curricular offerings - have grown at 5x that rate...more>>
Democracy Journal: A Sense of Belonging
By E.D. Hirsch Jr: Our schools are producing all manner of over-achievers. What they're not producing anymore are citizens. And it's liberalism that pays the price...more>>
EdSurge: What Would Happen If Learning in School Became More Like Working at a Startup?
...Successful students, like startups, are those who are resilient, constantly absorbing new information and challenging their assumptions. We're not surprised, then, to see a proliferation of startup and entrepreneurial programs springing up in and around K-12 schools...more>>
Hechinger: High school should be more like preschool
Why secondary education is borrowing ideas from early childhood...more>>
eSchool News: 5 technologies to avoid in the classroom-and what to use instead
In a technology-dependent education culture, are there some technologies to avoid? And if so, why, and what are better alternatives?...more>>
THE Journal: CoSN Survey: Mobile Learning Top Priority for K-12 IT Leaders
Mobile learning is the top priority for K-12 IT leaders, according to the fifth annual K-12 IT Leadership Survey published by the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN)...more>>
THE Journal: Virtual Schools to Grow 12.8% per Year Through 2021
The virtual schools market in North America is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 12.82 percent during the period 2017-2021, according to a recent report by market research firm Research and Markets...more>>
THE Journal: 4 Education Technology Trends That Are Redefining K-12
Usually articles that talk about education technology trends and predictions appear at the end of year (e.g., Schaffhauser and Kelly's predictions) or at the beginning of the year (e.g., Kajeet's predictions)...more>>
WSJ: Schools Shift to Free, Public-Domain Curricula
Teachers embrace creative freedom in 'open educational resources,' but critics say quality is inconsistent...more>>
Education Week: What Is OER? Answers to 5 Questions About Open Educational Resources
As long as there have been teachers, there has been sharing: binders of lesson plans, boxes of laminated hand-drawn math games, even recycled scraps of art projects...more>>
eSchool News: How school districts are leveraging Twitter to become rock stars
In a climate where Twitter is the center of so many tempestuous news stories, schools should be turning to the social media giant now more than ever-here's why...more>>
eSchool News: March's 11 buzzworthy edtech tools
Things move fast in the edtech world, and we hear all the time from teachers how hard it can be to keep up. This is why we've created the EdTech Eleven: our monthly list of noteworthy tools generating buzz in the edtech world...more>>
Education Week: Special Report: Navigating New Curriculum Choices
How Common Core, OER, and Digital Innovation Are Changing the Landscape...more>>
The Atlantic: Will Personalized Learning Become the New Normal?
Rhode Island is rolling out a statewide initiative to integrate student-specific instruction into classrooms...more>>
The 74th: AltSchool Hires 5 New Education and Technology Execs, Looks to Scale Learning Platform to Millions of Kids
AltSchool, a four-year-old network of independent schools, has a dream of growing so that millions of students nationwide can use its personalized-learning technology - and it's starting by adding five executives from charter schools, public school districts, and the tech sector to its team...more>>
WSJ: Parents' Spring Dilemma: To Test or Not To Test
Metro-area parents are grappling with questions about whether to have their grade-school children participate in state tests...more>>
Ed Dive: Government boosts funding for computer science ed to combat threats
A shortage of trained professionals who can deal with sophisticated cybersecurity threats has put renewed focus on K-12 education efforts in the sector, both at the federal and state level...more>>
The Atlantic: How a New Supreme Court Ruling Could Affect Special Education
In a stunning 8-0 decision in the case Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a higher standard of education for children with disabilities...more>>
eSchool News: Teachers: This change is causing dramatic gains in student achievement
What if we could empower our teachers to turn student assessment into a process of learning instead of a focus on measurement? Further, what if this mindset change led to an increase in student achievement on tests?...more>>
NYT: What Does It Take to Climb Up the Ladder?
Richard V. Reeves, of the Brookings Institution, has been doing research on the persistence of social and economic disadvantage for a long time. He often directs his attention to noncognitive skills...more>>
Getting Smart: 75 Top School and Charter Networks
School networks are one of the most important innovations in the modern era of U.S. K-12 education. They have boosted achievement and graduation rates and expanded quality options in the communities that need them the most. Here's how they work and why they matter...more>>
Getting Smart: How School Networks Work And Why That's Important
School networks are one of the most important innovations in the modern era of U.S. K-12 education. They have boosted achievement and graduation rates and expanded quality options in communities that most need them...more>>
EdTech: How Will the Internet of Things Impact Education?
...According to a 2016 survey by Extreme Networks, smart schools are using IoT technology to track school buses, attendance and student ID cards, and to monitor lighting and security systems, among other things...more>>
NYT: Why Kids Shouldn't Sit Still in Class
..."We need to recognize that children are movement-based," said Brian Gatens, the superintendent of schools in Emerson, N.J. "In schools, we sometimes are pushing against human nature in asking them to sit still and be quiet all the time."...more>>
Israeli 21c: Asian countries welcome Israeli early learning program
An Israeli home instruction program for parents and preschoolers already in use in 14 countries is now expanding to South Korea and China...more>>
Business Insider: Google beat Apple in education, one of its oldest strongholds - but now it's time for round two
Over the past few years, Apple, which was synonymous with educational technology, has seen its foothold in the classroom slip...more>>
Philly.co: Textbooks could be history as schools switch to free online learning
To Garnet Valley High School social studies teacher Christine Gumpert, the biggest waste in her Non-Western Cultures class is the $100 the district shells out for each bulky textbook that covers, at best, 10 percent of the curriculum and is out-of-date the minute it rolls off the presses...more>>
The Next Web: How Artificial Intelligence enhances education
Artificial Intelligence has proven its role as a game changing factor in an increasing number of fields, causing transformations unimaginable in the past. It's now showing glimmers of how it might forever change the learning process, one of the oldest skills that mankind has mastered...more>>
Meyer Blog: Problems with Personalized Learning
A reader pointed me to this interesting article in the current Educational Leadership on "personalized learning." She said it raised an alarm for her that she couldn't quite put into words and she asked if I heard that same alarm and, if so, what words I'd use to describe it...more>>
Knowledge Direct: The Learning Styles Myth
Some time ago, a colleague of mine wrote a blog called Learning Myths: Debunked, in which he stated that learning styles is a myth. Having obtained a degree in Elementary Education, I was shocked and still skeptical that learning styles was indeed a myth...more>>
Ed Dive: Experts warn against teaching to learning styles in K-12
Teaching to students' learning styles is ineffective, not backed by evidence and should be abandoned, say leading experts in education and psychology...more>>
Ed Dive: New report spells out ESSA's big boost to dual enrollment high school programs
A new report provides states with concrete guidelines for expanding access to dual enrollment programs, which let students earn college credit while still in high school, in accordance with new rules under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)...more>>
Venture Beat: Why parents might not be ready for AI in the classroom
We previously looked at the ways artificial intelligence may disrupt the traditional classroom. From blended learning to AI tutors, algorithms are poised to reshape the way teachers engage with their students...more>>
eSchool News: New technology is fundamentally changing learning-here's how
Find out how blended reality is leapfrogging today's classroom technology to transform learning...more>>
District Administration: Later school start times catch on nationwide
Many district administrators seem to agree that teenagers need more sleep. A new study released in February indicates that attendance and graduation rates may match the science, too...more>>
The Atlantic: What If Students Only Went to School Four Days a Week?
An increasing number of rural districts are moving away from the five-day model...more>>
The Guardian: The secret of happy children? Get rid of teachers and ban homework
There is a certain irony in the announcement that schools are to start trialling "happiness lessons" for eight-year-olds. It's a bit like Vlad the Impaler instituting pain-management courses...more>>
Accountability and School Choice:
US News: Trump Promises to Spend Big on Education Weeks After Proposing Billions in Cuts
Just weeks after President Donald Trump proposed axing $9 billion in federal education programs, he said his administration is planning to "spend a lot of money" on education in order to increase the number of students graduating with the skills needed to fill current employment gaps...more>>
Education Week: Educators Oppose Trump Plan to Scrap Teacher-Support Program
Federal funding for educator quality helped a small district outside Boston cut down class sizes for beginning teachers. A cadre of Delaware districts used it to help teachers better personalize instruction for students...more>>
Ed Dive: Lamar Alexander: US Dept of Ed's role is 'cheerleader' for schools
...Alexander said there's no role for the federal government to hold states accountable on what should be 100% a state issue, adding that while states don't always get it right, "federal involvement in these issues can become counterproductive."...more>>
EdWeek: DeVos Last in Approval Rating Among a Selection of Trump Officials, Poll Says
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos didn't enjoy the smoothest confirmation process, to put it mildly. How has that affected public perceptions of her? It doesn't seem to have helped...more>>
Chicago Tribune: Trump signs bills overturning Obama-era education regulations
President Donald Trump signed bills Monday overturning two Obama-era education regulations, continuing the Republican majority's effort to undo key pieces of the previous administration's legacy...more>>
National Review: States Plan for Sensible School Reform under an Obama-Era Law
Born of bipartisan concern over federal intrusion into K-12 education, the Every Student Succeeds Act may soon bear fruit...more>>
Hechinger: Why is Trump's ed secretary ignoring the biggest development in education since the printing press?
Online course-based choice won't achieve its promise without substantial public policy reform...more>>
US News: The Great School Turnaround
President Barack Obama didn't fix failing schools even with billions of dollars, can President Donald Trump?...more>>
Education Week: No, Congress Didn't Vote to Scrap ESSA: Answers to Your FAQs
...Lawmakers did NOT repeal the Every Student Succeeds Act, they just voted to repeal a particular set of regulations issued under that law, which is actually the latest version of a much older law, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act...more>>
The Atlantic: A New Era for School Accountability
By a one-vote margin, the Senate overturned many Obama-era education regulations on Thursday...more>>
US News: California Mulls Eliminating Income Tax for Teachers
The state is hoping the first-of-its-kind proposal generates interest in the profession at a time when educators are harder to come by...more>>
WSJ: Trump Budget Proposal Cuts $9 Billion from Department of Education
President Donald Trump's budget proposal would cut the U.S. Department of Education by 13%, eliminating funding for teacher training and after-school programs while ramping up investments in school-choice programs...more>>
Education Week: How Not to Argue for School Choice
I think school choice is a helpful thing. While I don't think it, in and of itself, will yield great teaching and learning, I do think it can play a very positive role in promoting coherent school cultures, empowering parents and educators, and fostering a healthy array of educational options...more>>
Washington Post: In Arizona, all children can potentially access public dollars for private education
All students in Arizona will potentially be able to access public dollars for private education under a bill that Gov. Doug Ducey (R) signed into law Thursday, creating one of the nation's most expansive school-choice programs...more>>
Politico: Florida's voucher program gets a national spotlight
When Education Secretary Betsy DeVos visits the Sunshine State today, she's expected to deliver a familiar refrain - praise for school choice generally, while focusing attention specifically on the state's tax credit scholarship, a quasi-voucher program that is one of the nation's largest...more>>
WSJ: School Choice Deniers
Critics hype a pair of studies while ignoring other evidence on education vouchers...more>>
US News: DeVos to Use State Accountability Plans to 'Encourage' School Choice
The Education Department is clarifying recent comments from Betsy DeVos, who said accountability plans could be a mechanism for pushing states to provide educational options for parents and children...more>>
EdSurge: School-Choice Data Reveals Parents Opting Out of Private Schools for Charters and Virtual
Denver County, Recovery and New York City school districts were ranked as the nation's top school-choice districts in the fifth Education Choice and Competition Index (ECCI), a ranking system based on thirteen categories of policy and practice...more>>
US News: Will Trump Use Tax Reform to Create a Scholarship Tax Credit?
With the Trump administration readying to tackle tax reform, education policy experts are gearing up for what many predict will be the vehicle for the president making good on his campaign promise to steer $20 billion in federal funding to school choice: a scholarship tax credit...more>>
US News: Charter Advocates Mount Opposition to DeVos Private School Agenda
Charter school advocates are increasingly pushing back against Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos' private school choice agenda...more>>
USA Today: Mr. Trump, Don't boost our budgets while cutting education: Charter school CEOs
We need federal support for all schools, for all kids, not just kids in 'choice' schools...more>>
Cleveland.com: Do vouchers give kids better educations? Ohio test results are mixed
The school voucher programs that some federal and state officials want to expand have mixed test results in Ohio that make it unclear how much more students learn than if they had stayed in their local public schools...more>>
NPR: This Week In Education: Supreme Court Rules On Special Ed; Senator Slams Vouchers
"I'm thrilled," said Amanda Morin, a parent and advocate with the website Understood.org, after the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in a case that could affect 6.5 million special education students...more>>
US News: Trump School Choice Proposals Drive Wedge Between Charter School Advocates
The Trump administration's plan to ax $9 billion in federal education spending but direct millions to a new program that would help students afford private school exposed a fissure among charter school advocates, one not publicly acknowledged but privately widening at an increasingly fast pace since the election...more>>
Education Post: When the Only Real Choice Is Private: My Unlikely Attraction to School Vouchers
When I taught in the "'hood," I chose to enroll my own daughter in the same "'hood" school and didn't think twice about it. My child attending my school kept me honest, a tangible reminder to advocate for each low-income student as if they were my own. It didn't end well for me...more>>
The Atlantic: Do Private-School Vouchers Promote Segregation?
A new report from the Century Foundation evaluates the claim...more>>
Politico: Several states pushing 'school choice' proposals
...Lawmakers in at least 10 states are pushing bills that would expand or create new tax credit scholarship programs, education savings accounts and voucher policies...more>>
NYT: School Choice Fight in Iowa May Preview the One Facing Trump
When she was shopping for a school for her daughter Alma, Mary Kakayo found a lot to like in St. Theresa Catholic, including its Catholic social justice theme, student prayer and hour of religious instruction every day...more>>
Politico: DeVos seizes the moment on school choice
After a rocky first month on the job, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' big moment has finally arrived...more>>
Education Week: Trump Budget Would Make Massive Cuts to Ed. Dept., But Boost School Choice
President Donald Trump's first budget seeks to slash the Education Department's roughly $68 billion budget by $9 billion, or 13 percent in the coming fiscal year, whacking popular programs that help districts offer after-school programs, and hire and train teachers...more>>
US News: DeVos to Urban School Leaders: I Support Public Schools
In perhaps her biggest mea culpa to date, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, an ardent supporter of school choice and private school voucher programs, underscored her support for traditional public schools during remarks Monday...more>>
NYT: Do Preschool Teachers Really Need to Be College Graduates?
In Washington, D.C., teachers at child care centers will soon join preschool teachers in needing college degrees - one of a series of policies nationwide requiring higher education for the people who take care of young children...more>>
NYT: A Toy for Toddlers Doubles as Code Bootcamp
It took a tentative step forward, turned to the left, took another step and then came to rest under a tree - at least, a drawing of one...more>>
Hechinger: Why six states still spend nothing on preschool
Many state preschool programs are still tiny, but in the Mountain West and New Hampshire, they are nonexistent. Here's why...more>>
EdWeek: Five Predictions for Education in 2017
Here is what's ahead for school choice, ed tech, and more...more>>

Higher Ed
Politico: Inside the deal to convert a large for-profit college into a nonprofit
The Dream Center Foundation last month announced that it plans to purchase the majority of campuses owned by the struggling Education Management Corporation - a move that tees up what would be one of the largest ever conversions of a for-profit college chain into nonprofit schools...more>>
University Ventures: Make Online Education Great (For The First Time)
It's human nature to think things were better in the Good Old Days. Even near-death experiences of yesteryear can be gilded with nostalgia...more>>
eCampus News: 16 of this year's biggest teaching and learning issues in higher ed
EDUCAUSE survey of almost a thousand college and university thought-leaders reveals key issues within faculty development, academic transformation, and much more...more>>
Quartz: Americans don't understand the point of universities, according to nearly 90% of US university presidents
A new study of 706 university presidents from Inside Higher Ed finds that most academic leaders quite keenly understand the chasm between themselves and the American public, too...more>>
Watchdog: Private nonprofit, for-profit universities could soon get regulatory relief
Bad press, combined with federal rules and regulations disproportionately targeting the higher education alternatives, have taken their toll on nonprofit and for-profit universities in recent years - but that could soon change...more>>
Bloomberg: Trump Defends Obama's For-Profit College Crackdown
For-profit college investors bid up stock prices in anticipation of a lenient Trump administration. Were they wrong?...more>>
Inside Higher Ed: A Step Ahead of For-Profits
As the Trump administration tries to roll back education regulations, one city is attempting to stay a move ahead by fortifying its own protections for some college students...more>>
The Atlantic: The Closing of the Republican Mind on For-Profit Colleges
In working to loosen proprietary-college regulation, contemporary politicians break decades of GOP precedent...more>>
NPR: How For-Profit Colleges Sell 'Risky Education' To The Most Vulnerable
Cottom worked as an enrollment officer at two different for-profit colleges, but quit because she felt uncomfortable selling students an education they couldn't afford. Her new book, Lower Ed, argues that for-profit colleges exploit racial, gender and economic inequality...more>>
Career Education Review: Education Department erodes student protections
During the nearly four hours of questioning at her confirmation hearing in January, Betsy DeVos, the education secretary, did not speak with specificity about her views on a host of Obama administration regulations meant to rein in abuses by for-profit colleges...more>>
Inside Higher Ed: Long Road for Regulatory Rollbacks
Republicans swept to power after years of complaints about the Obama administration's crackdown on for-profit colleges. But only tentative steps to roll back regulations have followed, and two major rules could be headed for a drawn-out negotiation process...more>>
Career Education Review: Repeal of Obama's higher education regulations won't be swift process for GOP
GOP lawmakers have been clear since November's election about plans to dismantle several Obama administration higher education regulations, including two major rules aimed at the for-profit college sector...more>>
NYT: Predator Colleges May Thrive Again
Congress has tried since the 1940s to curb predatory for-profit schools that survive almost solely on federal money while they saddle students with crushing loans for useless degrees...more>>
Politico: Cost of ITT Tech collapse continues to rise
The cost to taxpayers of the implosion of ITT Tech last fall has so far exceeded $141 million, according to court documents filed last week by attorneys representing the Education Department in the ongoing bankruptcy proceedings of the now-defunct for-profit college giant...more>>
MarketWatch: Taxpayers could end up paying $460 million because of ITT Tech's collapse
The collapse of a major for-profit college chain has already cost the government more than $100 million, a price tag that's only expected to rise...more>>
Chronicle: Former For-Profit Lobbyist Quits Job at Education Dept.
Taylor Hansen, a former lobbyist for for-profit colleges, quit his job at the U.S. Department of Education on Friday, Bloomberg reports...more>>
NYT: Betsy DeVos's Hiring of For-Profit College Official Raises Impartiality Issues
As chief compliance officer for a corporate owner of for-profit colleges, Robert S. Eitel spent the past 18 months as a top lawyer for a company facing multiple government investigations, including one that ended with a settlement of more than $30 million over deceptive student lending...more>>
Washington Post: New monitor finds trouble signs at former Corinthian campuses
Zenith Education Group set out two years ago to turn dozens of campuses formerly owned by for-profit giant Corinthian Colleges into premier nonprofit schools, but a new report from an independent monitor overseeing the transition raises questions about the company's progress...more>>
Chronicle: A For-Profit-College Company Embraces Its Technology-Focused Past and Its Evolving Future
Lisa W. Wardell, the new president and chief executive officer of the DeVry Education Group, talks about changes in the regulatory environment she expects under the Trump administration, what she, as an education outsider, is still learning about "the complexities around learning science," and why DeVry University recently settled several legal issues with federal enforcement bodies...more>>
ProPublica: For-Profit Colleges Gain Beachhead in Trump Administration
Taylor Hansen lobbied to weaken regulation of for-profit colleges. Since he joined the Education Department, it's started doing just that...more>>
The Brown Daily Herald: University researchers analyze revival of for-profit medical schools
Comeback of for-profit medical schools brings questions of reputation, quality of education...more>>
Real Clear Education: Gainful Employment: Measuring Quality or Measuring Subsidy?
There is much speculation that the Trump administration or the Republican-led Congress will undo the Obama administration's gainful employment rule...more>>
Thompson Coburn: The future of gainful employment: Three points, a calendar, and a webinar
As REGucation readers know, the U.S. Department of Education's "gainful employment" or "GE" regulations require, among other things, that for each GE program an institution offers, it must make certain public disclosures...more>>
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: In EDMC sale, ties to for-profit education to face scrutiny
Last year, an "extremely enthusiastic" charitable nonprofit foundation based in India approached Education Management Corp. with an offer...more>>
Inside Higher Ed: New Nonprofit Owner for EDMC
The Dream Center Foundation, a religious missionary organization based in Los Angeles, plans to buy EDMC, a struggling for-profit chain that enrolls 65,000 students. The resulting nonprofit college group will be secular...more>>
RTI Release: For-profit college enrollment more than doubled since 1996, attracting a different blend of students
Nationwide, the student population at for-profit schools includes higher percentages of women, African-Americans, older students, Pell grant and loan recipients, and members of the military than public or nonprofit institutions...more>>
WSJ: For-Profit Schools: Trump Delays Enforcing New Rules, Lifting Shares
Education Department delays 'gainful employment' rule to resolve industry concerns...more>>
NCES: A Profile of the Enrollment Patterns and Demographic Characteristics of Undergraduates at For-Profit Institutions
The rapid growth of the for-profit sector has renewed public scrutiny and concern about the historically poor labor market outcomes of students at many of these institutions and the amount of debt students in these institutions often take on...more>>
Inside Higher Ed: Year-Round Pell's Likely Return
Congressional Republicans and the Trump White House appear poised to bring back year-round Pell Grant eligibility, which the Obama administration and Congress nixed in 2012 over cost concerns...more>>
WSJ: Education Department Restores Pell Grant Eligibility for Students Whose Colleges Closed
The U.S. Department of Education will restore Pell Grant eligibility to students who attended but didn't graduate from shuttered colleges like ITT Technical Institute, allowing some to get new funds to pursue their education elsewhere...more>>
Inside Higher Ed: White House Calls for More Cuts to Pell
The Trump administration has called on the U.S. Congress to cut $3 billion from the U.S. Department of Education's budget as part of $18 billion in new proposed cuts to social programs for the current fiscal year, according to news reports...more>>
Washington Post: Trump administration's delay of rule to regulate career-training programs sparks protest
To obtain an associate degree in medical assisting at McCann School of Business & Technology in Pennsylvania, students can expect to pay $30,860 for a program that runs a little over a year...more>>
Sacramento Bee: Lawmaker wants tuition-free college in California by taxing millionaires
A California lawmaker wants to tax millionaires to provide a free education for residents at the state's public colleges and universities - the second proposal put forth in as many weeks to address the soaring cost of a higher education...more>>
Career Education Review: President Trump's First Budget Signals Potentially Lean Years Ahead for Higher Education Funding
Earlier today, President Trump released his "skinny budget," which details the Administration's plans for defense and non-defense discretionary spending for Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 while proposing some adjustments for the current fiscal year - which Congress has yet to enact...more>>
The Atlantic: Trump Reverses Obama-Era Protections on Student Debt
This clears the way for debt agencies to charge higher fees on overdue loans...more>>
NYT: Navigating Our Shameful, Maddeningly Complex Student Aid System
This month, the federal government switched off a tool that student financial aid applicants used to import their tax data into forms, adding laborious steps to a process that the tool was supposed to simplify...more>>
US News: Give America the Old College Try
Trump should look to higher education to make America great again...more>>
Career College Central: History on Repeat
The old adage that history repeats itself is never more prophetic than in the realm of career education...more>>
The Atlantic: Colleges' Endless Pursuit of Students
With increasingly sophisticated data, universities are constantly courting prospective attendees...more>>
Inside Higher Ed: Agent Debate Awakens
Draft policy proposed by Middle States would prohibit accredited institutions from using commissioned agents in international recruitment -- as many now do...more>>
EdSource: California 'student success' initiative slow to increase community college completion rates
California has seen no substantial increases in community college completion rates despite passing a much-anticipated reform law and spending nearly $890 million in subsequent state appropriations, all aimed at bolstering student progress...more>>
CityLab: Why Millions of Americans Never Finish College
How can millions of Americans be out of work or stuck in low-wage jobs, while employers leave millions of jobs unfilled each year? A big reason is the nation's college completion crisis-something that is just beginning to get the national attention it deserves...more>>
NPR: Here's The Fine Print On The Country's Biggest-Ever Free College Plan
New York state has passed legislation that would create the largest experiment in the country to offer free tuition at two- and four-year colleges...more>>
Politico: New York goes tuition-free
New York is poised to become the first state in the country to offer tuition-free public higher education for middle-class families after Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state legislative leaders reached a budget deal late on Friday...more>>
Daily News: New York to make state college tuition free for middle class
New York will be the first state to make tuition at public colleges and universities free for middle-class students under a state budget approved by lawmakers Sunday...more>>
NYT: Loans 'Designed to Fail': States Say Navient Preyed on Students
Ashley Hardin dreamed of being a professional photographer - glamorous shoots, perhaps some exotic travel. So in 2006, she enrolled in the Brooks Institute of Photography and borrowed more than $150,000 to pay for what the school described as a pathway into an industry clamoring for its graduates...more>>
PBS News Hour: Is college worth the cost?
If you add up all the college student loan debt in the United States, it stands at $1.4 trillion- with a T. That's more than Americans owe on their credits cards or car loans and just about anything else except their homes...more>>
WSJ: Colleges Resist Federal Effort to Gauge Student Outcomes
In an effort to expose poorly performing schools and rein in college costs, former President Barack Obama in 2013 proposed a rating system tying federal dollars to school outcomes...more>>
WSJ: Families, Lawmakers Want to Know More About What Becomes of College Students
As tuition costs continue to rise and states rethink their investments in higher education, colleges are under increasing pressure from prospective students and lawmakers to disclose outcomes like on-time graduation rates and earnings potential for particular majors...more>>
NPR: Elizabeth Warren on Student Debt Collectors and More Education News
As we head toward Tax Day, we've got student debt and state education plans on our minds in another edition of the NPR Ed Team's weekly roundup...more>>
WSJ: Coding Schools Build Tuition-Back Guarantees Into Business Model
Guarantees may be a scary prospect for four-year colleges, but they are built into the business model of the new and rapidly growing for-profit coding boot camps, which depends on students seeing a solid return on their investment...more>>
USA Today: Millennial parents, still in debt, plan to pay for children's education
The large majority of millennial parents plan to cover at least part of their children's higher education, despite still owing thousands of dollars in student debt themselves...more>>
Center for American Progress: Accreditors Must Prioritize Student Outcomes in Measuring College Quality
...Too many students who take out loans do not earn a degree or do not earn enough to pay down their debt, and they face damaging consequences either way...more>>
The Atlantic: Measuring College (Un)affordability
As many as 95 percent of schools are out of reach for low-income students...more>>
Hechinger: Placement rates, other data colleges provide consumers are often alternative facts
Advocates warn that calls for less regulation could result in even more misleading info...more>>
Hechinger: Students can't repay loans without jobs - here's how to navigate the 'last mile' from diploma to employment
Back in my days as a business analyst, I once had to evaluate the fortunes of a subprime auto lender that prospered by throwing in mechanic services as part of the sale. The reason was simple: if the car doesn't run, the borrower probably won't make the payments...more>>
ACTA: Reimagining the Cost and Value of College
Daniel Pianko, managing director of University Ventures, joins Higher Ed Now to discuss how new education innovation is helping to improve quality and career outcomes and reduce time- and cost-to-degree...more>>
EdSurge: Common (and Avoidable) Legal Pitfalls for Coding Bootcamps and Alternative Education Providers
The rapid growth of accelerated learning programs providing training to aspiring high-tech professionals-the best known being the "coding academies" or "bootcamps"-have recently been the subject of both optimism and skepticism...more>>
EdSurge: Student Results from Coding Bootcamp Coalition: 92% On-Time Graduation Rate, $70K Salary
BOOTCAMP RESULTS: Learn to code, get a job-and get paid well. Such is the tantalizing offer that coding bootcamps make. But are the numbers too good to be true?...more>>
NYT: Where Non-Techies Can Get With the Programming
When the Georgetown University Law Center offered computer programming last year, it was an experiment, a single class for about 20 students. It was filled almost instantly, and the waitlist swelled to 130...more>>
Chronicle: Coding Boot Camps Come Into the Fold With Campus Partnerships
Houston Breedlove had several reasons for enrolling in the coding boot camp that Trilogy Education Services now runs in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...more>>
Chicago Tribune: Do coding boot camps measure up? These groups want to help you find out
As coding boot camps multiply to meet demand for programmers, it's harder than ever for would-be engineers to pick a school. But growing complaints about the schools' value and recent fines against one for misleading advertising have left many people looking for a consistent measuring stick...more>>
EdSurge: Google Maps for Degrees? How One College Plans to Chart Out Student Pathways
Gone are the days when a college advisor's main duty was to help students choose their major and register for courses...more>>
Times Higher Ed: President turns MIT's research might to study of how people learn
'If we don't know how we learn, how on earth do we know how to teach?' says L. Rafael Reif, who tells Ellie Bothwell how the research giant is working to improve teaching practice...more>>
Tech.Co: 4 Ways Higher Education Ushers in the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
...Over the past few years, universities, colleges, and technical schools have begun installing programs and resources designed specifically to fit the needs of entrepreneurial-minded students...more>>
WSJ: Should College Students Be Required to Take a Course in Personal Finance?
Supporters of the idea say financial literacy is crucial in today's world. Opponents say courses miss the real issues...more>>
Inside Higher Ed: What the Working Class Wants
Colleges and universities face a steep challenge separating fact from fiction in the eyes of working-class and middle-income voters, according to recent focus group work conducted by the American Council on Education...more>>
Washington Post: It's not just about jobs. Colleges must help students find their passions.
During a recent lecture in my Trinity College course on American higher education, I asked my students, "Why do you go to college?" Most of them answered, in various forms, "To get a job."...more>>
Military Times: DoD: New TA oversight process to focus on correcting, not punishing, colleges
Randomly selected colleges, as well as those whose tuition assistance programs appear to differ significantly from other schools, will be scrutinized by auditors, under a new Defense Department plan...more>>
Inside Higher Ed: Finding a Niche in a Niche Market
Software vendors in the competency-based education market are pursuing different strategies as their role in the industry is growing more slowly than some had anticipated...more>>
Inside Higher Ed: Competency at Scale
Big for-profit American Public now offers competency-based undergraduate degrees that don't rely on the credit-hour standard, but federal aid isn't part of the mix, for now...more>>
Forbes: How Do Massively Open Online Courses Compare To In-Person Instruction For Learning Programming?
It's hard for true MOOCs to provide an effective level of support for an intro programming class. Both MOOCs and in-person can lecture on a concept, but the backbone of any programming class is projects, which is where the real learning happens...more>>
US News: 5 Differences Between MOOCs, Online Degree Programs
Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, offer a great opportunity for prospective students to learn more about almost any topic imaginable...more>>
Economic Times: India is second-biggest Market for edX Courses after US: CEO Anant Agarwal
Indian learners are younger than their overseas counterparts on average and heavily interested in business, data science, computer science and English language courses...more>>
NYT: Readers Tell Us: Is a Gap Year Worth It?
Exploring new paths, figuring out a field of study to pursue in college or simply taking a break are just a few reasons high school graduates are taking gap years...more>>
EdSurge: Coursera's Rick Levin on the Evolution of MOOCs and Microcredentials
Coursera sits somewhat awkwardly on the border between traditional higher education and the Silicon Valley-forces working to disrupt it...more>>
Chronicle: How Open E-Credentials Will Transform Higher Education
Those who dismiss higher-education e-credentials today are acting like retailers who dismissed e-commerce 20 years ago...more>>
Inside Higher Ed: Degrees Lead on Wages
While some states and colleges are focused on boosting certificates as a way to increase workforce development, associate degrees continue to increase graduates' earnings more than shorter-term credentials...more>>
Ed Dive: University app helps students build life skills to thrive
A new app based on mindfulness concepts is helping students at the University of Texas at Austin to master social and well-being skills and focus on gratitude, mindset and community...more>>
Campus Technology: Blockchain: Letting Students Own Their Credentials
Very soon this nascent technology could securely enable registrars to help students verify credentials without the hassle of ordering copies of transcripts...more>>
EDUCAUSE: Outside the Boundaries: Exploring Virtual and Augmented Reality in Learning
Virtual reality, like rock n' roll, is not something that can be described well. It must be experienced in order to be fully appreciated and understood. Interestingly, it has been catching on among educators...more>>
eCampus News: What the college digital experience will look like 5 years from now
What students and higher ed educators can expect from the changing digital landscape of higher ed: Then vs. now vs. 5 years from now...more>>
ELearning Learning: Gamification vs Game-Based Learning: What's the Difference?
Every year, the NCAA invites people from all over the world to participate in one of college sports greatest spectacles: March Madness. If you are reading this from the United States, chances are high that you have filled out a NCAA men's basketball bracket before...more>>
EdTech: 3 Innovations Borne Out of Virtual Classrooms Expand Higher Education's Reach
Efforts to increase online collaboration spark cutting edge solutions...more>>
Forbes: Never Mind China, India Will Be the Next Education Superpower
For some time now, the search for the next education superpower has turned its sights East, but while we have been looking in the right continent, perhaps it is has not been the right place...more>>
EDUCAUSE: The Blockchain Revolution and Higher Education
The blockchain provides a rich, secure, and transparent platform on which to create a global network for higher learning. This Internet of value can help to reinvent higher education in a way the Internet of information alone could not...more>>
Inside Higher Ed: Will International Students Stay Away?
Four in 10 colleges are seeing drops in applications from international students amid pervasive concerns that the political climate might keep them away...more>>
Inside Higher Ed: Can We Afford Free Textbooks?
When it comes to student success, "new" open resources ultimately do little more than further entrench an ineffective status quo, argues Robert S. Feldman...more>>
Brookings: Has the time come for personalized higher education?
Personalized learning is now a major movement in education. Districts and schools around the country are increasingly seeking ways to tailor and align instruction and supports-often via education technology and adaptive technology-to match the individual needs of students based on their unique learning profiles...more>>
The Atlantic: Training Students to Outpace Automation
Schools near Detroit have reworked curriculum to include both technical and soft skills...more>>

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Fast Company: The 10 Most Innovative Companies In Education 2017
This year's education innovators are transforming how-and what-we learn...more>>
EdSurge: Who's on the List of Most Popular Edtech Organizations and Jobs?
Every year, the EdSurge jobs board collects thousands of postings from companies, districts and nonprofits looking for new edtech talent...more>>
BSG Compensation Study Results for For-Profit Education Industry
This includes compensation data for the following titles: CEO, GM, VP Sales, CTO, CMO, CRO, Head of Product, CFO, VP of Business Development, University President, and...more>>
Ed Dive: SXSWedu 2017: Our recap of Austin's premier ed innovation gathering
We've rounded up all of our coverage of last week's show in one location for your convenience...more>>
Hechinger: Highlights from SXSW's education confab in Austin - and beyond
educators, advocates, researchers and education technology vendors gathered last week at the SXSWedu conference here, an annual event that is now in its seventh year...more>>
TechCrunch: Rethinking return on education investment
...a new generation of tech-enabled startups are beginning to reimagine how students finance their education - and make the financial transition from college to career. Higher education's transformation is, in turn, fueling a trillion-dollar convergence of fintech and edtech that aims to blur the line between learning and earning - and will force students, colleges and financial institutions alike to think differently about return on education investment...more>>
McKinsey: What makes a CEO 'exceptional'?
We assessed the early moves of CEOs with outstanding track records; some valuable lessons for leadership transitions emerged...more>>
TechCrunch: MasterClass raises $35 million for celebrity taught classes
If you want to learn something new, learn it from the master. That's the thesis behind MasterClass, which offers tennis tips from Serena Williams, cooking advice from Gordon Ramsay and vocal training from Christina Aguilera...more>>
Fast Company: The World Changing Ideas Of 2017
From global democracy to creating a new fish-based food system, nine ideas that could change the world for the better in 2017 and beyond...more>>
BostInno: Here Are 15 Harvard Startups in the 2017 President's Innovation Challenge
It's that time of year again: The Harvard iLab has announced 15 startup finalists for the 2017 President's Innovation Challenge...more>>
NYT: How Breaking the Rules Could Win You $250,000
The M.I.T. Media Lab's proposition is simple: Break the rules or shake up the status quo, and you might win $250,000 in cash - no strings attached. No, it's not a joke. Nominations for the lab's new Disobedience Award are open...more>>
NYT: Not Leadership Material? Good.
The World Needs Followers. The glorification of leadership skills, especially in college admissions, has emptied leadership of its meaning...more>>
US News: The Link Between Test Scores and Worker Productivity
The U.S. may have lower test scores than other countries. It might not matter much...more>>
WSJ: Good Schools Aren't the Secret to Israel's High-Tech Boom
How did a country so small become a technology hub? By inculcating an ethos of entrepreneurship...more>>
HBR: How to Keep Your Team Focused and Productive During Uncertain Times
Uncertainty is uncomfortable for everyone. Whether it's political turmoil or a reorganization at your company, employees who are concerned about their future are likely to be distracted and unproductive...more>>
IBM: Let Watson recommend your next job
Eric is feeling complacent at his current job and thinks that he is ready to jump back into the job market. He knows of some companies that he may be interested in working for, but has no idea of the roles they offer, if the work would interest and challenge him, and if the culture would be a good fit...more>>
Campus Technology: AI Market to Grow 47.5% Over Next Four Years
The artificial intelligence (AI) market in the United States education sector is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 47.5 percent during the period 2017-2021, according to a new report by market research firm Research and Markets...more>>
Venture Beat: What we can learn about the future of meetings from Google
I process meeting requests all day, especially on Fridays (when I typically hold a few phone briefings and meet with volunteers at a local college)...more>>
Forbes: Watch Out, Corporate Learning: Here Comes Disruption
The corporate training market, which is over $130 billion in size, is about to be disrupted. Companies are starting to move away from their Learning Management Systems (LMS), buy all sorts of new tools for digital learning, and rebuild a whole new infrastructure to help employees learn...more>>
Forbes : The Case For Modernizing Corporate Learning
Employers have increased their minimum skill requirements for jobs in the past few decades. Among a host of other consequences, this has resulted in a skills gap between workers and the demands of their jobs...more>>
McGraw Prize: Three Innovators in Education Named Winners of The Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education
The winners of the 2017 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education, one of the most prestigious awards in the field, were announced today. The Prize, founded in 1988 to honor the retiring former CEO, recognizes outstanding individuals who have dedicated themselves to improving education through new approaches...more>>
Ed Dive: CBE remains more popular with older students - but K-12 trends could change that
A report recently published in the Journal of Competency-Based Education shows CBE programs remain popular among older, "nontraditional" students who already have work experience, with just 10% of undergrads at CBE institutions under the age of 25...more>>
Chronicle: How Colleges Are Teaming Up With High Schools to Streamline Students' Paths
Nick Niehus is a senior at Iowa City West High School, but he's already got a head start on college. Every afternoon, after he is done with his classes, he heads to Kirkwood Community College's new regional center, where he takes college courses alongside other high-school students from the area...more>>
CNBC: A lesson plan from tech giants on how to transform education
Technology has the potential to be a game changer for teachers in far-flung places and schools with few resources. A range of software platforms offer teachers the ability to learn from best practices, customize lesson plans, manage assignments and complete evaluations...more>>
GoodCall: Experts Outline Trends to Watch in eLearning
Some of the most promising trends in education include utilizing data in a more meaningful way, micro-learning experiences, and mobile learning opportunities...more>>
Forbes: Navigating the Growing Pains Of Advertising to the Education Market
As industries go, healthcare and education rank neck-and-neck as the two largest industries in the United States, with education totaling a whopping $1.2 trillion in total expenditures, or 7.2% of the nation's GDP...more>>
Campus Technology: Southern New Hampshire U, Rethink Education to Fund Ed Tech Startups
Southern New Hampshire University and Rethink Education today announced a new $15 million seed fund to invest in ed tech startup companies "tackling some of the most pressing challenges in education."...more>>
Your Story: Online education and why we are a long way off from Saraswati and Lakshmi
The industry is expected to grow to $5.5 billion in market size by 2020. But there is very little focus on outcomes and there is danger of focusing on business models that go after 'loss-making' market share...more>>
EdSurge: What Does it Mean to Prepare Students For a Future With Artificial Intelligence?
Last year, in the height of the election season, the Obama administration quietly released a national strategic plan for artificial intelligence (AI) research and development...more>>
THE Journal: Younger Americans Abandon Broadband While Older Gens Buy in
In the United States, where the majority of the population uses the internet, age may influence whether an individual relies more on their smartphone or uses cable broadband services to browse the web at home...more>>
US News: Students Get Education Money to Manage Themselves
Every Idaho seventh- through 12th-grader gets $4,125 to spend on early college credits and other extras...more>>
Real Clear Education: Needed: A Department of Lifelong Learning and Career Development
Now that Betsy DeVos has taken office as the new secretary of education, the next major education issue, aside from funding levels, may be whether President Trump moves to eliminate the cabinet-level department...more>>
Real Clear Education: Education and the American Dream
Education has always been one of the five core pillars of the American Dream, along with a decent job that can support a family, home ownership, affordable health care and a secure retirement. Amidst today's polarizing politics, we can lose sight of how they all fit together...more>>
Inside Higher Ed: Cutting College Prep
White House promises proposed cuts to college-prep programs will be guided by evidence. But past attempts to evaluate the programs have been beset by controversy...more>>
The Atlantic: Trump's Education Budget Revealed
The administration's proposal includes cuts to federal aid programs and increased funding for school choice...more>>
NPR: Congress Erases K-12 Rules, A Financial Aid Foul-Up And Other Education News
Once again, it was another big week for national education news. Here's our quick take on the top stories...more>>
Entrepreneur: The 3 Education Trends Preparing the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
With technology constantly changing, can we actually predict what skills and knowledge today's students will need to lead the future workforce?...more>>
WSJ: America's H-1B Visa Talent Strategy Is Foolish
In 1392, Geoffrey Chaucer introduced the notion of April Fools' Day in The Canterbury Tales. The irony, 625 years later, that the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service opens the controversial H-1B visa selection process on a day noted for merriment and silliness...more>>
Fast Company: Why More Tech Companies Are Hiring People Without Degrees
Silicon Valley is starting to realize that the huge talent pool of nontraditional candidates may be the answer to its pipeline problem...more>>
WSJ: I Needed a College Degree for This? Why Companies Are Failing at Hiring
Requirements far exceed the skills that many entry-level jobs demand...more>>
Forbes: Employerland: What Universities Can Learn from La La Land
It's a game I play every time I attend a higher education conference. It's kind of like tracking Bigfoot, or trying to find my 11-year-old son when he's used up his allotted screen time and is hiding somewhere with his mom's iPhone. It is, of course, the Hunt for Employers...more>>
USA Today: Tech: Where the jobs -- and demand -- are
Tech may be where the best jobs are, but employers are struggling to fill those posts...more>>
WSJ: U.S. Cities Battle Each Other for Jobs With $45 Billion in Incentives
Already depleted by foreign competition, states and cities offer increasingly lucrative tax breaks and other benefits to keep companies local, sometimes squaring off with neighboring municipalities...more>>
Career Education Review: Education and Industry Experts Address the Growing Tech Skills Gap at SXSWedu
Yesterday evening, DeVry University hosted a panel at the SXSWedu national education conference in Austin, Texas. The session, titled, "The Tech Skills Gap: What Can Employers & Educators Do?" explored the growing technology skills gap and solutions to bridge it from the perspectives of an employer, educator and a tech entrepreneur...more>>
Washington Post: What vocational education students need today - but aren't likely to get under Trump
...One of the big educational challenges we've had for a very long time - and we have not done well with it at all - is how to provide a good general education for students in a vocational course of study...more>>
Financial Times: The silver thread of technology that runs through future jobs
Vocational training would bridge the skills gap and lever between reform and policy...more>>
Chronicle: Senate Does Away With Obama Teacher-Prep Regulations
Congress, in an effort to limit federal involvement in higher education, has voted to eliminate Obama-era regulations on teacher-preparation programs...more>>
The Atlantic: 5 Numbers That Explain Education in 2016
From record-high graduation rates to the percentage of students who attend charters, here are some figures that help tell the story of U.S. schools over the last year...more>>
The Atlantic: Sixteen in '16: Our Favorite Education Stories
Take a stroll down memory lane, a scroll through some #TBTs, or whatever the school kids are calling a throwback these days. Here are our favorite education stories The Atlantic published this year...more>>
Press Release: Skillsoft Research Establishes Books are More Important Than Ever
Skillsoft, the global leader in eLearning, released its white paper, A Modern Modality for Modern Learners, which explores how all types of media, including books and videos, support learners in developing new skills...more>>
Education Week: What Children's Book Influenced You the Most? Authors' and Educators' Picks
All readers can think of one book-or a dozen-that left an important mark on their lives. These influential books may have shaped their readers as people, helped them through tough times, provided counsel, or offered a mirror to their own lives...more>>
Real Clear Policy: Have We Reached Peak Entrepreneurship?
In today's hyper-partisan era, one goal crosses the political divide: the need for more entrepreneurs...more>>
McKinsey: The case for digital reinvention
Digital technology, despite its seeming ubiquity, has only begun to penetrate industries. As it continues its advance, the implications for revenues, profits, and opportunities will be dramatic...more>>
NPR: Adulting School Teaches Young Adults Grown-Up Skills
Transitioning to adulthood isn't new, but there is a more modern way to describe it: adulting. Get your car's oil changed? That's adulting. Cook dinner instead of order takeout? That's adulting...more>>
TechCrunch: Incubating innovation
City officials worldwide are bursting blood vessels trying to figure out how to create their own version of Silicon Valley...more>>
HBS Working Knowledge: Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle
It used to be that we equated power and prestige with a leisurely, luxurious lifestyle. Today, lack of leisure time is the real status symbol. Anat Keinan discusses what that means for consumer marketing...more>>
Career Education Review: Education and Industry Experts Address the Growing Tech Skills Gap at SXSWedu
Yesterday evening, DeVry University hosted a panel at the SXSWedu national education conference in Austin, Texas. The session, titled, "The Tech Skills Gap: What Can Employers & Educators Do?" explored the growing technology skills gap and solutions to bridge it from the perspectives of an employer, educator and a tech entrepreneur...more>>
Huff Post: The Future is Hybrid
Most of us are familiar with hybrid cars, animals - my family has a labradoodle! - plants, molecules, investments....the list goes on. When something is a hybrid version of itself, we associate it with being something new, unique perhaps, even something exciting. The same can be said for hybrid jobs and hybrid professionals...more>>
Fortune: Google and Coursera Have a Plan to Help Fill Tech Job Gaps
Job gaps and the difficulty of filling highly technical roles has risen to the top of the national agenda with discussion, especially concerning immigration and H-1B work visas for specialty occupations...more>>
e27: Are bots the answer to our ever-increasing talent shortage?
Imagine a world with perfect labour mobility - perhaps AI and bots could be the answer...more>>
UpWork Release: New Future Workforce Report finds nearly half of companies are thinking beyond traditional employment to embrace more flexible teams
Upwork, the world's largest freelancing website, today released a new report on U.S. business hiring and future talent needs. The report, "Future Workforce: How Companies Embrace Flexible Teams to Get Work Done," is based on a survey conducted by independent research firm Inavero...more>>
HBR: The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills
Upgrading domestic skills is far more relevant to the future of American workers than potential job losses through expanded trade with other Pacific-rim nations, say Joe Fuller and Matt Sigelman...more>>
Quartz: Indian techies don't need the US-their talent is welcome elsewhere
Amid growing anxiety over the Trump administration's possible revamp of the H-1B program, other countries around the world are putting the minds of Indian engineers at ease...more>>
EdSurge: The Flip Side of Abysmal MOOC Completion Rates? Discovering the Most Tenacious Learners
...Right now, we pay admissions counselors at Harvard thousands of dollars to whittle a highly competitive applicant pool down to the 5.2% of students who gain acceptance. MOOCs offer a more cost-effective mechanism that empower learners to do some of this sorting work themselves. For a growing number of organizations, MOOCs have become a new way to identify talent...more>>
SHRM: 2017 Recruiting Trends Point to Technology Driving Change
As the labor market tightens, talent acquisition professionals in 2017 will be asked to fill more positions offering alternative work arrangements and to begin to use emerging technologies to find the right workers for their organizations...more>>
SHRM: Candidates Choose Jobs Because of Company Culture
Job seekers are most likely to choose one job over another because of the chosen employer's culture, according to talent acquisition professionals surveyed by the Korn Ferry Institute...more>>
Campus Technology: Report: Global E-Learning Market to Grow 7.2% Over Next Decade
The global e-learning market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of about 7.2 percent over the next decade to reach approximately $325 billion by 2025, according to a recent report by tech market research firm ReportLinker...more>>
Forbes: The Fall Of Manufacturing And Rise Of Technology Makes Lifelong Education More Important
...It is new technology -- in particular the growing and now ubiquitous use of computers -- that has widened the wage gap between higher and lower skilled jobs -- not simply in manufacturing, but in the service sector as well...more>>