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BSG Activity (2016-2017):

LePort Schools, CEO
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Institute for Integrative Nutrition, Chief Marketing Officer
KIPP, Chief of Programs and Impact Officer
Walton Family Foundation, Charter School Finance Officer
One CEO search currently underway under non-disclosure agreement.

Tiber Health/University Ventures, Chief Product Officer (just closed)
Elsevier, Head of Adaptive Solutions (just closed)
Catapult Learning, VP Sales (just closed)
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)




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K-12

The Atlantic: Are Virtual Schools the Future?
Despite evidence of negative student-learning outcomes, Betsy DeVos appears to think so...more>>
NYT: Climate Science Meets a Stubborn Obstacle: Students
To Gwen Beatty, a junior at the high school in this proud, struggling, Trump-supporting town, the new science teacher's lessons on climate change seemed explicitly designed to provoke her...more>>
EdSurge: What Federal Education Budget Cuts Mean for Edtech
Selling an education technology product to public school districts in the United States has never been easy. Now it may be even tougher, with severe budget cuts looming over the education sector...more>>
The 74: Report Identifies America's Best Charter Schools, Where Over 100,000 Kids Are Shown to Be Months Ahead of Peers
A new study out this week yields some staggering results: A segment of public charter school students are overwhelmingly outperforming their counterparts in other public schools...more>>
Ed Dive: Why education reform leaders are moving away from the for-profit charter school model
Generally, charter schools must be overseen by nonprofit boards. However in some cases, management can be turned over to for-profit companies known as education-management organizations (EMOs), reports Chalkbeat...more>>
Reuters: Charter schools see opportunity with Republicans in power: lobbying group
Having Republicans control both the White House and Congress could deliver more federal funds to charter schools and also create competition for dollars from alternative approaches to education, the head of a charter school lobbying group told its members on Monday...more>>
Chalkbeat: Why for-profit charter schools are going out of style with some education reform leaders
Marshall Tuck is the last person you would expect to say it's time to limit charter schools...more>>
EdChoice Brief: School Choice in the States, May 2017
Need a record of May 2017's state school choice happenings? Our brief roundup has you covered...more>>
District Administration: K12 embraces video games
Welcome to the second annual game-based learning special report in District Administration. Games continue to grow in popularity in K12 lessons ranging from science and math to English and social studies...more>>
Huff Post: Addictive Education: The App Revolutionizing Literacy
"Everyone just expected that I would work in the factory... there was no college in my village... So at age 16, I ran away with a bag full of clothes and five dollars to the Indonesian city of Bandung."...more>>
The Herald News: Some Will County schools using increasing popular Google products for classes
'We get a lot of more bang for the buck in terms of devices'...more>>
Ed Week: Do Digital Games Improve Children's Math Skills?
In Gregory Smith's 5th grade class in Tampa, Fla., two girls are beating the majority of their class in an online math-strategy game...more>>
EdWeek Market Brief: K-12 Ed-Tech Platform and Tools Market Value to Increase to $1.83 Billion by 2020, Report Says
As more computing devices are available in K-12 classrooms, the market for ed-tech software and tools and back-end administrative technology platforms, is expected to grow to $1.83 billion by 2020, according to Futuresource Consulting, Ltd. Data analytics and instructional tools are categories the company predicts will show strong growth...more>>
Minnesota Post: Almost 50 years ago, Oregon Trail revolutionized educational software. Can the game's creators do it again?
Conceived for a class at a public school in Minneapolis, "Oregon Trail," is among the most popular educational computer games of all time...more>>
Ed Dive: 3 tips for identifying what's useful in ed tech
What should K-12 administrators keep in mind when navigating the flood of pitches from vendors?...more>>
Ed Dive: The top 5 trends in K-12 ed tech - and where they're headed
A primer on the key tech trends that should be top of mind for all schools and districts...more>>
THE Journal: D2L Brings Brightspace LMS to All of K-12
Ed tech company D2L has announced plans to release a major upgrade for its learning management system that is intended to span all of K-12...more>>
The Atlantic: The International-School Surge
Increased demand for a "western" education around the world has reshaped whom these institutions serve...more>>
eSchool News: 3 things schools must know about the rising "phigital" student
A major generational clash is underway, says a foremost expert, and it's affecting all industries, including education. The clash is coming from so-called Gen Z, the first generation to be considered fully "phigital"-unwilling or unable to draw a distinction between the physical world and its digital equivalent...more>>
eSchool News: K-12 is undergoing a purchasing renaissance-and it has massive implications for educators
As education innovation advances, so does the frustration of all parties involved in K-12 purchasing due to out-of-date processes, poor communication, and difficulties identifying new opportunities...more>>
EdTech Magazine: Livestreams and Dynamic Video Content Engage and Inspire Students
When the famous April the giraffe spent 60-plus days preparing to give birth, the livestream from Animal Adventure Park in New York received over 232 million views...more>>
EdTech Magazine: Is the Answer to K-12 Cost Savings in the Cloud?
IT professionals looking to cut costs and level the playing field may need to look beyond onsite servers...more>>
Axios: How AI will supercharge early-childhood education
The job of teaching is often cited as one that won't be replaced by artificial intelligence. But according to Joseph Qualls, an AI researcher at the University of Idaho, education, especially the early-childhood variety, is ripe for transformation through AI...more>>
Noodle Markets: 5 Uncomfortable Truths About Waste in School Spending
Former DC Chancellor of Schools Michelle Rhee's famous "warehouse tour" in 2007 showed stacks and stacks of district purchases that would never make it into classrooms...more>>
The Atlantic: Internet Addictions and School-Board Afflictions: This Week's Top 7 Education Stories
The best recent writing about school...more>>
SmartBrief: Tools to promote growth mindset
The concept of the growth mindset can be described this way: The brain is like a muscle. With 'exercise', it can grow and change over time. A person's perceived academic, talent, or interpersonal skills are NOT fixed at one level, but with effort, can be stretched and developed...more>>
Education Week: Vander Ark on Innovation: Network Effects in Education
"Human beings assemble themselves and form a kind of super organism. Super organisms have properties that cannot be understood just by studying the individuals." - Nicholas Christakis...more>>
Getting Smart: Integrated Curriculum: Why it Matters, and Where to Find It
Discipline-based learning was popularized in the mid 19th century. Disciplines were locked into place by course and credit structures a century ago...more>>
EdSurge: 8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow's Schools, Today
For the past 20 years, we have worked as teachers, administrators and advisors in public schools around the country. And we've traveled meeting with thousands of school leaders, teachers and students, listening to their experiences, both good and poor...more>>
EdSurge: Why Education Power Trumps Voice
Since Stacey Childress took up the post of chief executive of the NewSchools Venture Fund three years ago, she's transformed the annual shindig from a parade of the stars who frequently pop up in newspaper headlines to one where school practitioners, a handful of entrepreneurs and policy wonks, and yes, now students and their parents are the focus...more>>
Ed Week: Harnessing the Power of the Cellphone in Class
Sometimes I watch my students in the hallways before class starts and marvel at the computing power (they call them 'smartphones') they hold in their hands...more>>
THE Journal: Tips Toward a Safe and Positive Social Media Experience
It is inevitable that our children will seek to create social media accounts, interact with people online, share information, and post day to day activities and thoughts for the world to see...more>>
Ed Dive: Should there be an accrediting body for online K-12 providers?
Online credit recovery programs are cheaper and, some say, more efficient than any other option to help schools and districts boost graduation rates, and thus their popularity has skyrocketed in recent years, Dallas Morning News reports...more>>
NYT: The Silicon Valley Billionaires Remaking America's Schools
In San Francisco's public schools, Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce, is giving middle school principals $100,000 "innovation grants" and encouraging them to behave more like start-up founders and less like bureaucrats...more>>
Slate: Take These Students, Please
Schools across the country are pursuing an extreme form of online learning: It's all their struggling students do....more>>
Hechinger: How diplomas based on skill acquisition, not credits earned, could change education
By 2021, students graduating from Maine high schools must show they have mastered specific skills to earn a high school diploma. Maine is the first state to pass such a law, though the idea of valuing skills over credits is increasingly popular around the country...more>>
EdWeek Market Brief: 'Toolkit' Breaks Down K-12 Districts' Shifts Into Competency-Based Learning
A new guide provides insights on districts' efforts to pioneer approaches in "competency-based learning," and documents the many challenges they can face along the way...more>>
ExcelinEd: Competency-Based Education & School
What would a state funding system look like that is not based on hours of instruction? To answer this question, the Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd) examined funding of online and community-based courses....more>>
EdSurge with D2L: Real Life Learning: An Up Close Look at Competency-Based Education
Coined in the 1970s, competency-based learning is gaining converts and building enthusiasm in our K-12 education system, taking the focus off grades and seat time-and replacing it with an emphasis on students' mastery of specific concepts and skills...more>>
U.S. News: Don't Overlook Pre-K Curriculum
What children learn matters just as much as how they learn it...more>>
TorontoStar: Sale of Canadian child-care chain to UK corporation has advocates worried
The purchase of BrightPath Early Learning raises alarm among advocates who fear corporate child care will be allowed to grow...more>>
Education Week: Key Hiring, Exec. Compensation Insights for K-12 Companies Pursuing Top Talent
Recruiting Expert Often Looks Outside School Districts When Seeking Ed-Tech Talent...more>>
The Atlantic: What a New Study on Vouchers Means for Trump's Agenda
The administration has promoted private-school scholarships as a means of empowering families. But they may undermine a child's academic success...more>>
NYT: Trump Orders Review of Education Policies to Strengthen Local Control
President Trump issued a sweeping review of federal education policies on Wednesday in an executive order to pinpoint areas where the government may be overstepping in shaping operations of local school systems...more>>
Education Week: Trump's First 100 Days: How Does He Stack Up to Obama, Bush on K-12?
Have you been waiting for President Donald Trump to work with the Republican-controlled Congress and get rolling on a big K-12 education initiative? If so, you might be getting a little bit antsy...more>>
Education Week: DeVos Tells Fox News: 'There Isn't Really Any Common Core Any More'
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos seems to be indicating that, as far as she's concerned, the Common Core State Standards aren't really a big point of discussion in education any longer. But how did she express that idea, and does it hold up to scrutiny?...more>>
NYT: Ohio Town's Schools Hope to Be 'More Than a Line Item' in the Federal Budget
Ken Amstutz's phone did not stop buzzing long enough for him to think about what could happen in 24 hours. He was fielding questions from public officials and the national news media, keeping tabs on planned protests and coordinating a meeting with United States Marshals...more>>
Education Week: First Wave of ESSA Plans Gives Early Look at State Priorities
The Every Student Succeeds Act sought to give states flexibility to put their own stamp on accountability systems, including setting their own goals for student achievement and moving beyond reading and math test scores in rating student and school performance...more>>

Higher Ed

The Atlantic: The Broken Promise of Higher Education
Americans believe self-interested leaders have put their needs ahead of students, leading to a college-completion crisis...more>>
Real Clear Education: How to Navigate Public-Private Partnerships in Higher Ed
Less than a decade ago, doubts abounded about the role of online learning in traditional colleges and universities. Today, the online revolution continues to explode...more>>
Inside Higher Ed: Bipartisan Bill on Competency-Based Education
A bipartisan bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives last week would create a demonstration project for competency-based education programs...more>>
Politico: Analysis: Gainful employment rule could save feds billions
The Trump administration is considering delaying - and possibly rewriting - an Obama-era rule that a new analysis suggests could save the government billions of dollars in federal student loan forgiveness savings...more>>
Journal of Corporate Renewal: Uncertainty Swirls Around Trump's Impact on Post-Secondary Education
Supported by government funding of some $135 billion in student loans and grants each year, for profit and not-for-profit colleges are big business...more>>
NYT: Trump Administration Considers Moving Student Loans from Education Department to Treasury
...The potential change surfaced in a scathing resignation memo sent late Tuesday night by James Runcie, the head of the Education Department's federal student aid program...more>>
Center for American Progress: What's Up with ACICS Colleges?
The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) may be fighting for its life in the courts, but the schools it oversees have almost universally started moving on...more>>
Inside Higher Ed: Fine Print and Tough Questions for the Purdue-Kaplan Deal
University's boundary-testing deal poses a test for its accreditor and could set new precedents about online education and the role of public universities...more>>
Christensen Institute: Purdue and Kaplan: What's ahead
The Purdue/Kaplan deal, if successful, would neatly solve challenges for both institutions...more>>
The EvoLLLution: The Mid-Term: Key Challenges for Public Higher Education Over the Next Four Years
Over the next four years, a series of dynamics will challenge the ability of public colleges and universities to advance their missions of providing affordable college opportunities, improving student success, stimulating economic growth through research and workforce development, and addressing the diverse needs of communities and states...more>>
NYT: Honing a Vision for Higher Education
Some of the nation's most influential leaders in higher education met last week at the Higher Ed Leaders Forum hosted by The New York Times...more>>
NYT: Higher Education Seeks Answers to Leaner Years
With an important source of revenue down and the flow of customers flattening out, one of the biggest businesses in Georgia - its public university system - is turning to a strategy of consolidations and mergers to improve efficiency and cut costs...more>>
MYT: The Telltale Data That Can Identify College Students at Risk
Administrators at the University of Kansas knew they had a problem: Many of their most vulnerable students - largely low income and often the first in their families to go to college - were not graduating...more>>
NPR: Hey Higher Ed, Why Not Focus On Teaching?
Stanford physics and education professor Carl Wieman won a Nobel Prize for his innovative, break-through work in quantum mechanics...more>>
Observatory: Skill up now, pay later: one startup wants to change the paradigm of higher education
Higher education is facing many challenges, one of the most critical issue facing the future of higher education is the burden of college debt students have to carry after graduation...more>>
NPR: The First State To Offer Free Community College To Nearly Every Adult
The opportunity to go to college for free is more available than ever before. States and cities, in the last year especially, have funded programs for students to go to two-year, and in some cases, four-year, schools. Tennessee has taken the idea one step further...more>>
Campus Technology: Flipping the Risk and Reward Model of Higher Education
A one-year college alternative promises to prepare students for the workplace, with no tuition due until they land a paying job...more>>
The PIE News: OpenClassrooms expands degrees, guarantees jobs
Students who complete an online degree through OpenClassrooms will have a job linked to their qualification within six months of graduating or have their tuition fees refunded. This is the guarantee promised by the France-based vocational online learning platform, which has undergone a concerted shift towards full accredited degrees...more>>
VC Circle: Sundaram Finance backs online education loans marketplace GyanDhan
GyanDhan, an online marketplace for education loans operated by Delhi-based Senbonzakura Consultancy Pvt. Ltd, has secured an undisclosed amount from Sundaram Finance Holdings, a subsidiary of Chennai-based Sundaram Finance Ltd, it said in a statement...more>>
Observatory: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative partners with College Board to provide personalized pathways to college
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, created by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, are launching a two-year partnership with The College Board that will help millions of students better prepare for college and career...more>>
Business Insider: Investors are paying college students' tuition - but they want a share of future income in return
Melissa Gillbanks is no fan of student loans, so when she was looking for a way to pay for her senior year at Purdue University, she was happy to sign away a portion of her future income in exchange for a very different way to raise cash for college...more>>
Observatory: A new tool helps universities track cheating patterns in online programs
In the past decade, the number of students taking online college courses has increased dramatically. To help colleges measure their rate of online test-taking violations, Examity, an online proctoring and identity verification company, launched examiDATA, a platform designed to aggregate and analyze information on test performance and academic integrity...more>>
Ed Dive: Technology is changing the way institutions approach traditional disciplines
From anatomy to English, possibilities abound to transform learning with digital tools...more>>
Inside Higher Ed: Is Online Ed Missing the Mark?
New study finds students at most risk may be those least well served by learning outside the classroom...more>>
EdSurge: Education Technology Vendors in Higher Ed: Friends or Foes?
During recent interviews with education technology decision-makers at institutions of higher education, I was struck by the sometimes extreme views formed about vendors during the process of procuring tools to support teaching and learning...more>>
Business Wire Release: Coursera Secures $64M in Series D to Fuel Enterprise Business, Global Reach, and Product Innovation
Today, Coursera announced it has closed $64 million in a Series D funding round, taking the company's total capital raised to date to $210.3 million. Coursera will use the latest round to fund efforts in its fast-growing enterprise business (Coursera for Business), to expand its master's degree portfolio, and to accelerate product innovations that take advantage of the platform's unmatched scale with over 26 million registered learners globally...more>>
EconoTimes: Kira Talent Unveils New Technology To Improve Higher Education Admissions Decisions
Kira Talent, the leading admissions assessment platform for higher education, today announced the evolution of its product to become a smarter, more indicative tool to evaluate student potential...more>>
Inside Higher Ed: How the Amazon Echo Show Will Revolutionize Higher Education
I'm here to confidently predict that Amazon's $229.99 Echo Show will revolutionize higher education...more>>
EdSurge: As LinkedIn's Video Library Grows, Company Says It Has No Plans to Compete With Colleges
It has been just over two years since LinkedIn shocked the industry by buying Lynda.com, a library of video courses, for $1.5 billion...more>>
Campus Technology: Ed Tech Companies Miss the Boat on Solving College Problems
Only one in seven education "insiders" (15 percent) believe that higher education tech companies are "solving the right problems."...more>>
eCampus News: 5 ways to use predictive analytics in an ethical manner
Institutions are increasingly turning to predictive analytics to help determine if students will enroll, and if so, whether or not they'll need support to stay on track for graduation. But this data use begs the question-are decision-makers using the data ethically?...more>>
Cloud computing takes off as top new discipline on campus
Employers are looking for workers with the skill, and it's up to higher ed to provide the talent...more>>
PR Newswire Release: Global Report Predicts EdTech Spend to Reach $252bn by 2020
EdTechXGlobal Releases Key Market Drivers in Global EdTech Review and Highlights Changing Nature of the Workforce...more>>
U.S. News Data: The Average Online MBA Student
See how your age and prior work experience compare with those of online MBA students in ranked programs...more>>
Inside Higher Ed: Signs of a Ceiling in Online Ed Market
Is the community college sector the canary in the coal mine for the online education market?...more>>
University Business: How to make money: Colleges find a new way
Created to administer missed exams, college testing centers now generate revenue...more>>
NYT: With Innovation, Colleges Fill the Skills Gap
How large is the so-called skills gap? The Manpower Group, a human resources consulting firm, says the gap, which is often defined as the difference in job skills required and the actual skills possessed by employees, is a chasm...more>>
Real Clear Education: Online Educator Udacity Adapts Courses to Changing Labor Market
In the fall of 2016, online educator Udacity announced the launch of a "nanodegree" program for self-driving car engineering...more>>
Inside Higher Ed: Micro-Credentials and College Admissions: Enhancing Access and Supporting Learning
Given the frequency with which I am asked about the summertime pace on university campuses, I suspect there are many who imagine the gears of innovation grinding to a halt. Sorry to disappoint...more>>
Career Education Review: The 'Borrower Defense' Rule Takes Effect in July. Brace for It.
One legacy of the Obama administration that the higher-education sector expected not to survive is the "borrower defense to repayment" regulation, published in October 2016 by the Department of Education...more>>
Diverse Education: FAFSA Hacker Targeted Trump Tax Info
The person accused of a 2016 attempt to use a web-based federal student-aid tool to illegally obtain taxpayer information is a Louisiana-based private investigator who used the tool to target then-presidential candidate Donald J. Trump, court records obtained by Diverse show...more>>
Reuters: Trump to offer exclusive contract to service U.S. student loans
President Donald Trump's administration will soon offer an exclusive contract that will give one company the right to service billions of dollars of outstanding federal student loans now handled by four companies, officials said on Friday...more>>
CooleyEd: State Authorization and Licensing: Recent Developments and Trends to Watch
State authorization requirements, particularly for online education programs, remain in flux even as more states join the state reciprocity compact, known as SARA, which applies to accredited institutions...more>>
Chronicle: What the Congressional Budget Deal Means for Higher Ed
Bipartisan congressional negotiators have reached an agreement on a $1-trillion spending bill that would increase funding for the National Institutes of Health and reinstate year-round Pell Grants...more>>
Politico: Budget deal would restore year-round Pell grants
The deal reached Sunday night by Congressional leaders includes an expansion of Pell grant eligibility to include low-income students attending classes all year...more>>
LinkedIn: Debunking the Five Myths Behind the Pell Grant
While college enrollment continues to climb, it has grown the least for low-income students. The Pell Grant was created to open the door to college for low-income students, but we find that qualified Pell Grant recipients are being denied the opportunity of an elite college education...more>>
CooleyEd: As the Department of Education Revisits the Gainful Employment Rule California Legislators Propose a State Alternative
With continued questions about the Trump Administration's commitment to Obama-era regulations, including the Gainful Employment (GE) Rule, one state is ready to jump into the fray and offer its own state-based alternative to the federal GE Rule...more>>
Charlotte Observer: If this congresswoman gets her way, the days of federal education regulations are over
U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx wants the federal Department of Education to disappear. She wants Washington to stop passing down rules and regulations schools have to follow...more>>

Et Alia

Ed Dive: Facebook testing new features to turn site into platform for online education
Managers of Facebook groups listed as a class or school have noticed that the site now has an option where they can upload course units that can also track progress, reports Inside Higher Ed...more>>
The 74: Analysis: For Ed Tech That Actually Works, Embrace the Science of Learning
This is the second in a series of essays surrounding the EdTech Efficacy Research Symposium, a gathering of 275 researchers, teachers, entrepreneurs, professors, administrators, and philanthropists to discuss the role efficacy research should play in guiding the development and implementation of education technologies...more>>
Ed Tech Update: Emerging Industries - The Robots Are Here (in all Shapes and Sizes)!
This week we're examining the recently published book, The Industries of the Future, by Alec Ross...more>>
Ed Week: Trump Budget Would Slash Education Dept. Spending, Boost School Choice
President Donald Trump's full budget proposal for the U.S. Department of Education, released on Tuesday, includes big shifts in funding priorities and makes cuts to spending for teacher development, after-school enrichment, and career and technical education, while ramping up investments in school choice...more>>
New York Review of Books: The Demolition of American Education
Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos's proposed budget for the US Department of Education is a boon for privatization and a disaster for public schools and low-income college students...more>>
Observatory: Major changes in job training are necessary to compete with AI
As millions of workers see their jobs threatened by Artificial Intelligence, robots, and automation, changes in education and learning are necessary to keep people employable. A new paper by Pew Research Center addresses this challenge and analyses five major themes -divided in two topics- about the future of jobs training in the tech age...more>>
eLearning Industry: Machine Learning Process and Scenarios
The benefits out of the machine learning process can be outstanding, but it may not always succeed. This article explains the machine learning process and scenarios used...more>>
McKinsey & company: The six types of successful acquisitions
Companies advance myriad strategies for creating value with acquisitions-but only a handful are likely to do so...more>>
eLearning Industry: The Professional Education Revolution
Professional Education is experiencing a revolution as the traditional learning methods are broken. The article puts the Professional Education industry in the context of the current technological, societal, and economic changes and discusses some adaptation that needs to be done...more>>
eLearning Industry: EdTech Trends And Challenges In 2017
An industry that has the combined power of education and technology has managed to set trends along with some challenges that is set to mark its growth in the present era. With billions being invested, edTech is considered to be one of the richest and fastest growing industries...more>>
eLearning Industry: 8 Corporate eLearning Trends For 2017
The corporate eLearning industry is always evolving to keep up with current trends and technologies. In this article, I'll highlight 8 corporate eLearning trends you should keep an eye on in 2017 and beyond...more>>
eLearning Industry: 5 Lessons On Virtual Reality In eLearning
Here are 5 lessons on Virtual Reality in eLearning that you need to know...more>>
Education Week: Gates, Zuckerberg Philanthropies Team Up on Personalized Learning
Two of the biggest names in technology and education philanthropy are jointly funding a $12 million initiative to support new ways of tailoring classroom instruction to individual students...more>>
eLearning Industry: Market Matching, Journey Mapping, And Insider Trading: What Most EdTech Entrepreneurs
Get WrongFor edTech entrepreneurs, getting things right requires a very intentional focus on micro-market matching, empathetic journey mapping, and the strategic curation of an alliance network...more>>
Ed Tech Times: Spotted at the 2017 ASU GSV Summit: 6 Startups Shaking Up Education
Last week, we attended the ASU GSV Summit in Salt Lake City. Colloquially known as "ASU GSV," the annual conference offers a chance for people in the learning and talent innovation communities to come together...more>>
Impact Alpha: TPG's Rise Fund comes out of the gates with a big edtech investment in EverFi
One of the big questions around the Rise Fund, the new impact investing fund from private equity firm TPG Growth, has been where the fund will put the $2 billion it has said it is raising...more>>
WSJ: You're Hired: Trump Plans to Build U.S. Workforce With Apprenticeships
The president, who hosted NBC's reality television show 'The Apprentice,' will announce an expansion of apprenticeship programs...more>>
NYT: Some Hires by Betsy DeVos Are a Stark Departure From Her Reputation
Since her confirmation as the education secretary, Betsy DeVos has been the Trump cabinet member liberals love to hate, denouncing her as an out-of-touch, evangelical billionaire without the desire or capacity to protect vulnerable poor, black, immigrant, gay or transgender students...more>>
The Atlantic: Graduation and Gentrification: This Week's Top 7 Education Stories
The best recent writing about school...more>>
The Atlantic: Trump's Education Budget Takes Aim at the Working Class
The president wants to cut funding for programs such as career and technical education and redirect that money toward school choice...more>>
NYT: You Still Need Your Brain
Most adults recall memorizing the names of rivers or the Pythagorean theorem in school and wondering, "When am I ever gonna use this stuff?"...more>>
Politico: Budget day: What to watch
By now, it's no secret that President Donald Trump's 2018 budget, being released today, will be bullish on school choice policies while making cuts elsewhere like federal student loan programs...more>>
Washington Post: Trump's first full education budget: Deep cuts to public school programs in pursuit of school choice
Funding for college work-study programs would be cut in half, public-service loan forgiveness would end and hundreds of millions of dollars that public schools could use for mental health, advanced coursework and other services would vanish under a Trump administration plan to cut $10.6 billion from federal education initiatives, according to budget documents obtained by The Washington Post...more>>
Observatory of Educational Innovation: Study provides guidelines for the use of educational data
As massive amounts of educational data can now be stored, and student's information can be tracked from pre-K to college, parents and privacy advocates are raising concerns about the misuse of the data...more>>
EdSurge: Intel Hits Pause on Edtech Accelerator
Just a few weeks ago Intel Education was advocating for edtech startups to apply for the company's annual education accelerator program. Now, nearly a month after applications have closed, the education arm of the Silicon Valley giant has announced that their program will not be returning this fall...more>>
EdSurge: Bankers, Buyers and Warriors: Reporter's Notebook From the 2017 ASU+GSV Summit
Bankers, lawyers, researchers and policymakers. Administrators, entrepreneurs and the Golden State Warriors. The ASU+GSV Summit, now in its eighth year, has assembled yet another potent cocktail of education industry stakeholders from different walks of life...more>>
EdSurge: EverFi Rocks the Edtech Industry With $190 Million Fundraise
EverFi is a rare breed of education technology company that can boast a wide reach. It not only covers the K-12, higher education and corporate training markets, but its staff also work in some of the most remote corners of the country...more>>
The Atlantic: Sports-School Scams and Capitol Hill Plans: This Week's Top 7 Education Stories
The Collapse of America's First Sports-Only College, Illinois's Historic Budgetary Failures Skew National Education-Funding Data, How D.C. Became the Darling of Education Reform, The '90s Edutainment Renaissance...more>>
McKinsey & Company: How to win the digital race by coming in second, and other (often surprising) ways to reinvent for the digital world
A new data-driven study on digitization identifies which digital strategies work, and quantifies how well they work...more>>
McKinsey & Company: The six types of successful acquisitions
Companies advance myriad strategies for creating value with acquisitions-but only a handful are likely to do so...more>>
McKinsey & Company: Why effective leaders must manage up, down, and sideways
Strong team leadership isn't enough. New research shows the importance-for business impact and career success-of also mobilizing your boss and colleagues...more>>
McKinsey & Company: Think digital is a big deal? You ain't seen nothing yet
Digitization has barely started, and so has the accompanying upheaval. Some key insights for winning strategies...more>>
McKinsey & Company: What makes a CEO 'exceptional'?
We assessed the early moves of CEOs with outstanding track records; some valuable lessons for leadership transitions emerged...more>>
ERE: Google Quietly Launches 'Badass' Hiring Tool for Employers
Looks like Google isn't taking Facebook's move into the employment space lying down. The company is quietly introducing a new product called Google Hire...more>>
Bloomberg: Do You Really Need a College Degree for That Entry-Level Job?
Once a position has been 'up-credentialed,' it's hard for HR departments to relax their hiring criteria...more>>
Moodle News: LinkedIn Learning's Path Towards Lifelong Skill Acquisition
Now that LinkedIn, owned by Microsoft, has acquired online learning content company Lynda.com, the organization is launching LinkedIn Learning, an ambitious initiative that connects with their core business in more ways than one...more>>
NYT: Owning Your Own Future
Political analysts will long debate over where Brexit, Trump and Le Pen came from. Many say income gaps. I'd say ... not quite. I'd say income anxiety and the stress over what it now takes to secure and hold a good job...more>>
NYT: How to Prepare for an Automated Future
We don't know how quickly machines will displace people's jobs, or how many they'll take, but we know it's happening - not just to factory workers but also to money managers, dermatologists and retail workers...more>>
NBC: Most Millennials Are Finding It Hard to Transition Into Adulthood: Report
By his twenties, Kyle Kaylor imagined he would be living on his own, nearing a college degree, and on his way to a job that fulfilled him...more>>
WSJ: American Workers Evaluate the State of Jobs in the Digital Economy
The Pew Research Center in association with the Markle Foundation last year conducted a survey about the state of American jobs to shed light on how people think about work and about the skills and training needed to get ahead in our fast-changing digital economy...more>>
EdSurge: Ka'Ching! 2016 US Edtech Funding Totals $1 Billion
Santa proved a little more parsimonious to U.S. edtech companies, which altogether raised an estimated $1.03 billion across 138 venture deals in 2016...more>>