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Post-election Speculation: NYT: Where Donald Trump Stands on School Choice, Student Debt and Common Core When it comes to predicting how President-elect Donald J. Trump's administration will affect America's schools and universities, education experts say they are struggling to read the tea leaves...more>> The Week: What will President Trump mean for America's schools? During the presidential campaign, the candidates talked about a lot of things: immigration, jobs, health care, national security. Meanwhile, education didn't get much airtime...more>> EDWeek: Trump's School Choice Expansion Plan May Face Uphill Battle School voucher programs in the nation's capital and Vice President-elect Mike Pence's home state of Indiana could serve as a blueprint for a Trump administration plan to use public money to enable disadvantaged students to attend the public or private school of their choice...more>> Hechinger: How will the presidential election results influence education technology in schools? Uncertainty on how a Trump administration might influence innovation...more>> Washington Post: Will Donald Trump destroy U.S. public education? There's a reason that people who care about public education in the United States are mightily worried about President-elect Donald Trump. There are, actually, a number of reasons - all of which lead to this question: Will Trump's administration destroy U.S. public education?...more>> ETC: Virtual schooling could see push under new administration Tapped by President-elect Trump for the role of Education secretary, philanthropist and school voucher proponent Betsy DeVos could make a push for virtual schooling as indicated by some of her affiliations...more>> EdWeek: Post-Election Positioning: Implications for Education Companies What Donald Trump's Election and Congressional and State Results Mean for the K-12 Market...more>> Washington Post: A sobering look at what Betsy DeVos did to education in Michigan - and what she might do as secretary of education The people who best know the education advocacy work of Betsy DeVos, the billionaire tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to be his education secretary, are in Michigan, where she has been involved in reform for decades...more>> NPR: Trump's Pick For Education: A Free Market Approach To School Choice The unofficial motto of a public charter school co-founded by Betsy DeVos - President-elect Trump's choice to lead the Department of Education - could be "No Pilot Left Behind."...more>> AEI: Uncle Sam and America's schools in the Trump administration When it comes to K-12 education, possibly the most important question for any incoming Republican president is, "Are you hoping to advance particular programs or a steady, coherent conservative philosophy?"...more>> EdWeek: School Choice: Will Trump Help or Hurt the Cause? School choice advocates are waffling between excitement for potentially unprecedented new opportunities under a Donald Trump administration, and concern that the president-elect could also dramatically undermine the school choice movement...more>> EdWeek: States Eye Greater Control Over K-12 Policy in Trump Era Washington was already poised to return a lot more authority over K-12 policy to states, thanks to the Every Student Succeeds Act, slated to hit school districts next fall...more>> Hechinger: What's the worst that could happen under New Ed Secretary Betsy DeVos? Some scenarios Thanksgiving is, of course, about giving thanks, while being mindful of an America that has not always treated people fairly...more>> EdWeek: Why Trump's Plan for a Massive School Voucher Program Might Not Work Many school choice advocates are ecstatic that President-elect Donald Trump has tapped billionaire Betsy DeVos to be the next U.S. Secretary of Education-their visions for expanding voucher programs and charter schools on a grander scale seeming more likely than ever...more>> EdDive: Who is Betsy DeVos, Trump's pick for ed secretary? President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Betsy DeVos, a Michigan billionaire, charter school proponent and active Republican, as his education secretary, prompting a range of predictions about what she might do in office...more>> Usable Knowledge: The Problem with School Choice When President-elect Donald Trump tapped Betsy DeVos as his pick for U.S. Secretary of Education, he triggered a debate over whether widespread school choice - like the voucher system that DeVos supports - would really boost student achievement across the country...more>> WSJ: Betsy DeVos's School Mission One promise of the Trump Presidency is that it will try to break up Washington's political cartels. Among the worst is the Education Department, and Betsy DeVos is well positioned to take it on as Mr. Trump's nominee to run that wholly owned subsidiary of the teachers unions and cultural left...more>> Romper: These Betsy DeVos Quotes Will Make Parents & Teachers Very Worried ...DeVos is chairwoman of the American Federation for Children, and an advocate for charter schools. She's not very well-known, but quotes from Betsy DeVos might concern many parents and educators...more>> NYT: Why Trump's Education Pick Won't Be Able to Privatize U.S. Schools Betsy DeVos, a wealthy Republican philanthropist, whom Donald J. Trump selected on Wednesday as the next secretary of education, has spent her career promoting a market-based, privatized vision of public education...more>> NY Review of Books: When Public Goes Private, as Trump Wants: What Happens? By Diane Ravitch: The New York Times recently published a series of articles about the dangers of privatizing public services, the first of which was called "When You Dial 911 and Wall Street Answers."...more>> More K-12 Education Next: Ten-year Trends in Public Opinion From the EdNext Poll Common Core and vouchers down, but many other reforms still popular...more>> CIO: How Google overtook Apple in education Apple's longtime lock on the education market began to fall apart when Google first introduced Chromebooks more than five years ago. Here's how Google swept in and started to push Apple out...more>> WSJ: Pearson's Bet on Common Core Fails to Pay Off Pearson PLC, the world's largest education company, made a major miscalculation on the Common Core academic standards, expecting a windfall that failed to materialize as it headed into a downward spiral in sales, stock price and staff...more>> Education Next: The Charter Model Goes to Preschool Over the past 20 years, both charter schools and pre-kindergarten education have taken on increasingly prominent roles in the schooling of America's children...more>> Forbes: School Choice Is The Only Way To Save U.S. Education The United States is in the midst of an education crisis; this is not news. The underperformance of American students, particularly in science and math, is well-known, as is the education bureaucracy's dereliction of duty in the country's poor and urban communities...more>> Education Next: Three Thoughts on the Ugly New PISA Results On Tuesday, the 2015 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) results were released. The news wasn't good. PISA is administered every three years to a sample of 15-year-olds in education systems across the globe...more>> Scientific American Mind: Nurturing Genius A decades-long study of exceptionally gifted children reveals what it takes to hone the world's sharpest minds...more>> EdDive: Elementary schools face tough decisions on cell phone use As a growing share of elementary school students get their own cell phones, administrators have to decide whether to allow them in school and where to draw the line...more>> WSJ: Copying Singapore's Math Homework The world needs a network of organizations to help countries learn from each other's education systems...more>> TechCrunch: Why education should become more like artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence is all around us. It's in our cars, our homes and our pockets. IBM is teaching Watson to understand, reason and even to learn - helping to translate information into knowledge that can help drive more informed decision-making in medical care...more>> FETC: Experts: Policymakers willing to support 'data-driven' education The Center for Data Innovation says the U.S. K-12 education system has failed to harness the power of data to boost student performance and close achievement gaps in the same way that other sectors have leveraged data to work more efficiently and effectively...more>> EdSurge: Math Scores Drop, But Achievement Gap Narrows for U.S. Teens in International PISA Assessment The results are in: The National Center for Education Statistics today released its findings for the 2015 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)...more>> NYT: What America Can Learn About Smart Schools in Other Countries Every three years, half a million 15-year-olds in 69 countries take a two-hour test designed to gauge their ability to think...more>> Huff Post: The Global Search for Education: Everything You Need to Know About PISA ...To tell us everything we need to know about PISA, The Global Search for Education welcomes Andreas Schleicher, OECD Director for Education and Skills, and Special Advisor on Education Policy to the OECD Secretary-General...more>> EdDive: Challenges persist when gamifying education Determining how to use gaming elements and to what extent remains a hurdle to unlocking its full potential for many...more>> Getting Smart: The Importance of Balancing Classroom Technology Use Technology changes in today's classroom have changed how students learn to read and write. Forget taking notes with a pencil and notebook-today's students hardly know what a chalkboard looks like, and reading information on paper is rare...more>> EdSurge: Meet Intel Education Accelerator's Newest Cohort of EdTech Visionaries It was an edtech entrepreneur's dream on Wednesday at Intel's Education Accelerator Demo Day...more>> EdSurge: Who Thinks Tech Makes Learning More Fun? According to a survey of more than 20,000 students and teachers conducted by Quizlet, 83 percent of teachers--particularly those ages 32 or younger--say they believe "devices in the class" make learning more "fun" for their students. Only 63 percent of students agree...more>> EdWeek: Avoiding Costly Errors in Responding to K-12 RFPs District Leaders Share Their Pet Peeves About Vendors Making Promises They Can't Keep, Falling Short on Implementation...more>> BBC: Singapore tops global education rankings Singapore has the highest-achieving primary and secondary pupils in international education tests in math and science. But primary school pupils in Northern Ireland were ranked sixth at math, the highest of any in Europe...more>> EdSurge: U.S. Department of Education Announces Final Regulations for Every Student Succeeds Act The U.S. Department of Education today issued its final regulations on several key provisions of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), a law designed to help states and districts move beyond limited metrics and labels of the No Child Left Behind program...more>> EdWeek: Top Adviser to Pearson, Michael Barber, to Leave Company Michael Barber, a top adviser at Pearson who has called for judging the company's work on the "efficacy" of its products, will leave the behemoth education corporation next year...more>> EdWeek: New Analysis Compares Costs, Effectiveness of K-3 Math Products An ambitious new analysis uses district purchasing information, demographic data, and test results in an effort to create an easy-to-use tool for comparing what curricula K-12 systems are buying, what they're paying for it, and academic outcomes...more>> EdWeek: International Tests Show Rising, But Mixed, Math and Science Performance U.S. students are generally improving in math and science, along with their peers around the globe, but the latest Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study results-including a longitudinal look for the 20th anniversary of the tests-show more of a slow uphill slog than a breakout performance...more>> EdDive: The 2016 Dive Awards for K-12 education After months of research, we've narrowed down the year's top administrator, district, startup and more...more>> EdWeek: Security, Cybersecurity Lead K-12 Purchasing Categories Two recent reports that track K-12 spending reveal schools' strong interest in purchasing security-related hardware, products, and technology. In one of those analyses, researchers found that "public safety" was the fastest growing category of formal solicitations for education spending in the 3rd quarter of 2016...more>> Hechinger: The tried-and-trued model of personalized learning that's been around for 100 years Personalized learning is all the rage. And for good reason. Our world is rapidly changing, and students need a broader set of skills to lead the future - adaptability, goal-setting, critical thinking, problem-solving, executive functioning, collaboration...more>> eSchool News: World's largest K-12 reading survey identifies trends, highlights best practices Tapping into data collected from nearly 10 million K-12 students who read 346 million books and nonfiction articles last school year, Renaissance® releases its ninth annual What Kids Are Reading report...more>> EdWeek: How Companies Can Make the Most of Education Conferences Organizers of High-Profile K-12 Events Offer Advice, and Warn of Mistakes Vendors Should Avoid...more>> Front Row Education: 2017 Technology in the Classroom Survey Results Over 2,500 teachers and administrators across the U.S. participated, answering questions regarding the state of technology at their schools...more>> EdSurge: The EdSurge Guide to Choosing, Vetting and Purchasing K-12 Edtech Products "Procurement" sends chills down many spines because all too often the process of finding and buying technology, curriculum and other resources has become laborious and confusing...more>> EdWeek: Breaking into Japan's Ed-Tech Market Is an Education for Companies Japan brought us Nintendo and Sony, among other well-known technology companies...more>> EdWeek: Ed-Tech Pilots: New Resource Tries to Help K-12 Districts Get Them Right District leaders who are eager to try out ed-tech products but wary of committing to big purchases sometimes stage pilot tests, so that teachers, administrators, and students can give digital tools low-stakes trial runs...more>> Center for Data Innovation: Building a Data-Driven Education System in the United States Schools today are not very different from 50 years ago. Instructors still teach to the average, rather than provide students personalized instruction, because it is expedient, not because it is effective...more>> EdNET Insight: Winners of the 21ST Annual EDDIE Awards The ComputED Gazette is pleased to announce winners of its 21st Annual Education Software Review Awards. The Awards target innovative and content-rich software (including apps for iPad and Android) and websites that augment the classroom curriculum and improve teacher productivity, providing parents and teachers with the technology to foster educational excellence...more>> WSJ: China Tightens Rules for Private Schools Change bars for-profit schools for younger students and seeks to ensure schools are run 'in a way supportive of socialism'...more>> THE Journal: New Documentary Explores Impact of Mobile Devices on Teens' Lives "Screenagers: Growing Up in the Digital Age" examines the impact of screen technology on kids and offers parents practical solutions that can work...more>> EdSurge: Which Edtech Companies Are Producing the Best Research-Based Products? When edtech entrepreneurs design and develop their products, high-quality research is not always at the top of their minds...more>> EdWeek: 3 Critical Competencies for the Future - Preparing Students to Thrive in 2020 As described during the proceedings of the 2016 World Economic Forum, we have now entered into the Fourth Industrial Revolution - a time period marked by the fusion of technology and biology...more>> EdWeek: California To Give $200M in College Readiness Grants to Almost 1,000 Ed. Agencies The state of California is distributing about $200 million to nearly 1,000 school districts, county offices of education and charter schools for college readiness, according to a recent announcement...more>> EdWeek: Do 'Digital Natives' Prefer Paper Books to E-Books? As digital devices and access to e-books proliferated in schools and homes over the past several years, some ed-tech experts expected that print books would soon become relics...more>> Mashable: Move fast, but be careful: What is happening with education tech Facebook's old motto of "move fast and break things" is great when you're dealing with stuff like photo sharing and autoplay video. But what about when you're dealing with something a bit more sensitive, such as how teachers, students and parents communicate?...more>> EdWeek: Your Guide to States Using Common Core Standards in 2016 As states continue to address the Common Core State Standards in various ways, more and more people have been wondering about the status of the common core nationally...more>> AIR: Homeschooling Increases in the United States, Parents Cite School Environments as a Concern Homeschooling in the United States increased between 1999 and 2012, although nearly 97 percent of the nation's 56 million students from kindergarten through high school attend public or private schools, according to a new report by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)...more>> |
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Post-election Speculation: The Atlantic: Why For-Profit Colleges Are Undaunted by the Trump University Case Many players in the sector have seen their stocks climb since the election...more>> Washington Post: For-profit college students make a last-ditch attempt at faster debt relief A coalition of people who say they were defrauded by Corinthian Colleges, ITT Technical Institutes, Art Institutes and other for-profit colleges are urging the Obama administration to cancel their debt before Donald Trump takes office...more>> Chronicle: Will Higher Education Be 'Trumped' by State Lawmakers? As the impact of the 2016 elections takes shape in statehouses, there are early signs that some policy proposals made by President-elect Donald J. Trump are prompting reactions from governors and state legislators...more>> Chronicle: For Undocumented Students, Trump Adds New Risk to Study Abroad It's been 20 years since Sheila Salinas saw her maternal grandparents, or the tiny concrete home on a dusty unpaved road where she grew up in Chalco, Mexico...more>> Chronicle: Expect DeVos to Apply Her Free-Market Outlook to Colleges ...Her primary policy focus has been on the privatization of elementary and secondary schools, by taking money away from the U.S. public-school system through the promotion of vouchers and charter schools...more>> LinkedIn, Wallace Pond: What Does the Election of Donald Trump Mean for Private Sector Higher Education? ...In short, the long-term viability of private sector higher education lies in the industry's ability to deliver a sustained, compelling value proposition to students, employers, and tax payers, while operating with "bullet proof" compliance and unquestioned stewardship of public funds. Thinking otherwise puts the private sector of higher education at risk regardless of who is president....more>> Times Higher Ed: US Republicans ready to roll back HE regulation under Trump Republicans in the US Congress are likely to have a more significant role in higher education policy than Donald Trump's education secretary through the cutting back of regulations governing universities, according to sector experts...more>> WSJ: For-Profit Colleges Look to Donald Trump for a Pass For-profit colleges are looking with relief to the incoming Trump administration, banking on a rollback of tough regulations that threatened to lead to the closure of hundreds of schools and that drove their stock-market valuations down sharply...more>> Ending Washington's war on trade schools Congress can help Trump rejuvenate technical education...more>> Inside Higher Ed: Foreign Students Bring $20 Billion to Australia International education's value to Australia has surged past 20 billion Australian dollars ($14.8 billion U.S.), confirming the industry's status as the country's third-biggest earner and easily the largest export of services...more>> Chronicle: What Does Betsy DeVos Have in Mind for Higher Ed? By selecting Betsy DeVos to become the next secretary of education, President-elect Donald J. Trump has signaled his commitment to an ambitious plan to reform elementary and secondary education. But after a campaign during which Mr. Trump offered few details on higher education, the pick does little to clarify his vision for that sector...more>> NYT: Donald Trump Agrees to Pay $25 Million in Trump University Settlement Former students said they were cheated out of thousands of dollars in tuition, and one of the cases was set to go before a jury in 10 days...more>> NYT: Foreign Students Consider College in Donald Trump's U.S. At a college fair on Wednesday at the Le Méridien hotel here [New Delhi], 20 American universities made their pitches to aspiring students, many of whom had long hoped to study in the United States...more>> Chronicle: How Trump Could Spark a Renaissance in Higher Education Imagine a world where tuition at an Ivy League college is $4,500, with room, board, and books another $5,700, for an annual bill of just over $10,000. Given what students can earn throughout the year, they could work their way through a good college without taking out loans...more>> Inside Higher Ed: Higher Ed Innovation in a Trump Era Amid uncertainty over new administration's stance on postsecondary education, Under Secretary Ted Mitchell exhorts colleges and other supporters of expanding postsecondary opportunity to "double down" on their work...more>> Inside Higher Ed: Panel Says Deregulation of For-Profits is Likely Leading critics and supporters of the for-profit college industry gathered on a panel at the Cato Institute Wednesday to discuss the sector's future of under President-elect Donald Trump. The six panelists agreed on one point: nobody really knows what to expect, given Trump's unpredictability...more>> The Chronicle: How Trump Could Change Higher Ed The election of Donald J. Trump to lead the nation caught academics, like many other people in the country, by surprise. The challenge for colleges now is to anticipate how Mr. Trump's presidency might affect their finances, international-student enrollment, protection of students' civil rights, campus unrest, and other issues...more>> Chronicle: The Specific Threats Now Facing Higher Education Three questions: What does Donald J. Trump's election portend for higher education? How should we respond to ill-conceived, threatening, or dangerous initiatives from Washington? Is higher education somehow complicit in President-elect Trump's victory?...more>> EdSurge: For-Profit Colleges Just Got a New Lease on Life. They Should Be Careful Not to Waste It. The shocking election of Donald Trump as our next president has yielded a number of immediate winners who have been "on the outs" under the Obama Administration...more>> Chronicle: Regulatory Relief Under Trump Could Favor Both For-Profit and Traditional Colleges The day after Donald J. Trump secured a victory in the U.S. presidential election, Wall Street traders voted with their money...more>> More Higher Ed Brookings: Preparing America's labor force: Workforce development programs in public community colleges The number of short, vocational credentials earned by students at public community colleges more than doubled between 2000 and 2012. Though there is a growing body of research suggesting that students benefit from earning these credentials, very little is known about which aspects of workforce training programs are essential for student success...more>> Inside Higher Ed: Apollo Sale Approved, With Conditions After months of review, the U.S. Department of Education on Wednesday approved the proposed $1.14 billion sale of Apollo Education Group, which owns the University of Phoenix, to a group of three private equity firms...more>> NPR: What Former Employees Say ITT Tech Did To Scam Its Students When he first moved to Miami, Walter Teruel says, working as a recruiter for ITT Technical Institute was a welcome change from his life in New York where he had been selling antiques and life insurance....more>> Hechinger: Colleges face a new reality, as the number of high school graduates will decline An increase in low-income and minority-group students will challenge colleges to serve them better...more>> Chronicle: A Population in Flux Forces Colleges to Adapt The projections loom like storm clouds, worrying college officials throughout the state. Over the next 15 years, the number of high-school graduates in Pennsylvania is expected to fall steadily to 132,000, down from 150,000 in 2009-10...more>> WSJ: Colleges in the West With the Most International Students Brigham Young University-Hawaii has the highest percentage of international students among Western schools in the WSJ/THE College Rankings...more>> Forbes: The College Degrees With The Fastest And Slowest Growing Salaries Salary should never be the only factor you use to guide your career path, but it's an important element to consider...more>> Bloomberg: Want a Job in Silicon Valley? Keep Away From Coding Schools For-profit intensive engineering academies have become prevalent, but some graduates find themselves in debt and unprepared for tech jobs...more>> WSJ: Midwest Colleges Rated Highest by Students for Career Preparation survey of students conducted for The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings asked students how well they feel their school is preparing them for their chosen career. In the Midwest, Kettering University got the highest marks...more>> Live Mint: Gainful employment rules have impacted 20% of our students: Gregory W. Cappelli Gregory W. Cappelli, chief executive of Apollo Education Group, feels the gainful employment rules should apply to not-for profit colleges and universities...more>> EdDive: How a late federal push for immigration reform could impact colleges Roll Call reports United State Senators Richard Durbin (D-IL) and Lindsay Graham (R-SC) are drafting legislation that would extend legal status to more than 700,000 undocumented students...more>> Chronicle: 39 Private-College Leaders Earn More Than $1 Million A total of 39 leaders of private colleges earned more than $1 million during the 2014 calendar year...more>> Reuters: How top U.S. colleges hooked up with controversial Chinese companies New Oriental, China's biggest private educator, has been accused of academic fraud. Thanks to two enterprising Americans, it has also gained access to leading U.S. college admissions officers...more>> Forbes: The Education Department's Trillion-Dollar Bank On Wednesday, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a scathing report on the way the Department of Education calculates costs for certain student loan repayment plans...more>> EdSurge: What Universities Can Learn from Udacity's 'Gig Economy' Service Two weeks ago, Udacity launched a program to connect graduates from its programs with short-term work from potential employers...more>> Inside Higher Ed: Pivotal Year for Accreditation For accreditation, 2016 will be remembered as an inflection point, a pivotal moment, a culmination of a multiyear revamping, which means this space is now dominated by two features...more>> NPR: Is College Worth It? Recent Grads Share Their Experiences When young adults set out to pick a college back in 2010 and 2011, they were making a decision of a lifetime amid big financial obstacles: soaring tuition and the great recession...more>> EdDive: Through the looking glass: Higher ed experts weigh in on industry's future From appropriations to tax code changes, many are anxious about what to expect from Washington...more>> Center for American Progress: The Unlikely Area in Which For-Profit Colleges Are Doing Just Fine Graduate education is far from the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of for-profit education. This sector and the schools in it have largely built their reputations on short training programs tied to entry-level occupations in fields such as allied health or criminal justice...more>> Live Mint: India grabs 2nd spot in emerging markets university rankings: report China ranked first with 52 universities while India was on the second spot with 27 universities in the ranking...more>> Chronicle: If You Had $45 Billion, What Would You Do to Improve Education? If ever there was a plum job in the world of education, Jim Shelton has landed it. Seven months ago, Shelton was hired by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to head up its education portfolio...more>> PIE News: Chinese MOOC learners to top 10 million by year end The number of students enrolled on a MOOC in China is set to exceed 10 million by the end of 2016, up from 1.5 million just two years ago, a white paper from the Ministry of Education has predicted...more>> ICEF: New university rankings put the focus on employability Two recently published employability rankings reveal some important insights for institutions of all stripes, including the importance of so-called "soft skills", such as communications skills and adaptability, and the growing utility of expanded linkages between institutions and employers...more>> Times Higher Ed: The blockchain revolution: will universities use it, or abuse it? New digital systems - the emerging shape of Web 3.0 - could be the means for large numbers of people both to get access to affordable higher education and to use the skills they acquire to create wealth...more>> Forbes: Price Competition Comes To Higher Education The headline on this piece is mildly deceptive, since some price competition has long existed in higher education, but it has been extremely rare, although not unheard of, for colleges to reduce sticker prices in order to entice new students...more>> EdSurge: Why Partnerships-Not VC Funding Alone-Will Ensure Continued EdTech Innovation Analysts and industry experts have lamented the recent slowdown in edtech investment, crystallizing doubts already felt by entrepreneurs and academics...more>> Chronicle of Higher Ed: A 'Netflix for Education'? Why LinkedIn's New Product Should Give Us Pause This fall LinkedIn introduced a new product that brings together courses from Lynda.com, an online-training company it purchased last year, and LinkedIn's rich data on job needs and job seekers...more>> Gallup: Higher Ed Faculty Skeptical About Online Course Quality While online learning continues to drive change in higher education, most faculty members remain skeptical about the quality of education offered via web-based courses...more>> Time: Now You Can Sell Shares in Yourself to Pay for College Taking out another high-interest private student loan seemed like the only option for Amy Wroblewski this fall...more>> Inside Higher Ed: 'Augmented Intelligence' for Higher Ed This company behind the Jeopardy!-winning computer, Watson, is now establishing itself in the adaptive and personalized learning markets...more>> Business Because: Here's How Online Learning Will Disrupt The MBA Degree Biz students are using stackable certificates to create customized online degrees...more>> ICEF Monitor: More than one million international students in the US The Institute of International Education (IIE) released its landmark summary of international student enrolment in the US today: the annual Open Doors Report on International Education Exchange...more>> EdDive: International student enrollment at American colleges tops 1M The Institute of International Education recently revealed that student enrollment from foreign nations has exceeded more than 1 million for the first time in the nation's history, punctuated by a more than 25% increase in the number of students from India...more>> Times Higher Ed: University of Oxford launches its first Mooc World's top-ranking university announces course on economic development through new collaboration with online platform edX...more>> EdSurge: Making Video Games for Higher Ed Requires Major Investment. Is It Worth It? A majority of young adults already play video games, so using them in courses seems like a natural fit. But building World of Warcraft or a similar blockbuster game requires massive production teams and millions of dollars...more>> Washington Post: A telling experiment reveals a big problem among college students: They don't know how to study. Why do kids drop out of college? Yes, some can't afford to keep going with skyrocketing tuition costs. But as cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham explains in this piece, there are other reasons...more>> Campus Technology: Top 10 Education Technologies that Will Be Dead and Gone in the Next Decade In our 2016 Teaching with Technology survey, faculty members offered their predictions on what the future holds for technology in teaching - including what hardware and systems will bite the dust over the next 10 years...more>> Hechinger: Polls: Americans increasingly mistrustful of college costs, leadership, and value Half of college graduates are uncertain whether their degrees were worth the money...more>> Reuters: For-profit U.S. colleges attract investor interest Investors appear to be giving another look at the beleaguered for-profit education industry as shares of Strayer Education Inc (STRA.O) and Capella Education Co (CPLA.O) rise on improving financial results...more>> Atlantic: When Colleges Forget the Calendar and Focus on Mastery Instead Competency-based education allows students to progress through topics as they master them and could help reach underserved populations...more>> EdDive: The costs of competency-based education A recent analysis of competency-based education reveals four new models of development and approach, which are finding more support from colleges and universities nationwide...more>> Epoch Times: Why the for-profit education business model is unsustainable At the heart of the education industry is the notion that what takes place in the learning environment is the key to student success and eventually, positive outcomes. But it is the individual work of students and families which influences these factors, which now drive financing and confidence in both the public and for-profit sectors...more>> Epoch Times: A Portrait of the Millennial Generation, Through the Lens of Liberal Education Sustainability curricula represents a paradigm shift in higher education Clayton Colaw, a millennial working on his master's in sustainability at Columbia University, sees many things in the business world he thinks he can do better, especially from a leadership standpoint. "The old adage is that the first thing a business is supposed to do is make money," said Colaw. But that is not enough-you also have to care about people. "Sustainability is caring about making money by doing things right," he said. ...more>> |
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Post-election Speculation: McKinsey: Three more reasons why US education is ready for investment ...Here, we focus on three new themes: technology for K-12 teacher professional development, pathway programs for international students in higher education, and simulation and serious-game training in corporate learning...more>> Parchman, Vaughan & Co: 2016 Post Election Education Sector As the following stock charts illuminate, the equity markets are viewing the recent election results optimistically for publicly-traded education and training firms. Many industry observers expect the Post-Secondary sector to stabilize with the policies of the new administration...more>> Whiteboard Advisors: Education Insider, Post-Election Analysis Launched in 2009, Education Insider is a report that uses a proprietary survey model to cut through the noise and provide real-time insights on education policy trends from a small group of 50-75 Congressional staff, federal officials, and other Insiders close to the policymaking process...more>> Atlantic: More Americans Look to Congressional Democrats Than to Trump for Solutions A new survey suggests many might prefer a kind of multipolar Washington, with three distinct orbits of power checking each other...more>> EdSource: Trump's plan intended to reduce high cost of child care through tax breaks Tax deductions and rebates are at the heart of President-elect Donald Trump's child care policy proposal, which would offer the most help to high-income families, some help to middle-income taxpayers and less to low-income parents...more>> Politico: Meet the congresswoman poised to tear up Obama's education legacy 'I'm going to push to diminish the role of the federal government in everything ... that isn't in the Constitution,' says the expected House Education chair...more>> Slate: Will Trump Overhaul Public Education? From privatization to civil rights, his Department of Education could transform the American system...more>> Scientific American: Trump's Presidency Will Be a Disaster for Public Education The choices Trump is making bode ill for STEM education - and all public schools...more>> EdWeek: Education Under Trump: Who Will Ride Shotgun, and Who Will Get Locked Out? President-elect Donald Trump hasn't picked an education secretary yet, and he didn't talk a great deal about schools on the campaign trail...more>> EdDive: Apprenticeships could be key to preparing manufacturing workforce If manufacturing jobs do increase under a Trump presidency, as the candidate promised, they will be jobs for a workforce with technical skills - and apprenticeships could be an important path to filling them...more>> NYT: Where Donald Trump Stands on School Choice, Student Debt and Common Core When it comes to predicting how President-elect Donald J. Trump's administration will affect America's schools and universities, education experts say they are struggling to read the tea leaves...more>> Mother Jones: Bullying in Schools Is Out of Control Since Election Day In the week since Donald Trump's election, a rash of racist, anti-Muslim, and anti-Semitic incidents-from chants of "Build that wall!" to swastika graffiti-have surged inside classrooms, on college campuses, and in communities around the country...more>> More Et Alia BSG: Looking Outside of the Education Box "Should we look exclusively within education, or should we consider people outside education?" Some version of that question is asked more and more in our pre-search discussions as we launch senior level executive searches in the for-profit education sectors...more>> Brookings: Memos to the president on the future of U.S. education policy For the next two-and-a-half weeks, the Chalkboard will feature special content as part of our series, "Memos to the president on the future of U.S. education policy."...more>> GradNation: Gains in College Readiness and Enrollments Propel Nation Towards its Postsecondary Goals, But Next Wave of Challenges Threaten Future Progress Study looks closely at pipeline from high school to postsecondary education completion for three cohorts of young adults...more>> Time: Sorry, Young People: You Probably Won't Make as Much as Your Parents Did About half of 30-year-olds won't make as much money as their parents did at the same age, a new study has found...more>> ICEF: Anytime, anywhere: How online and mobile technologies are transforming language learning Traditional modes of language teaching and learning are increasingly offered in the context of the expanding use of technology in and around language classrooms...more>> TechWire: Google X Founder Shifts Focus to New Workforce Training Startup Sebastian Thrun wears many hats. He's an expert in robotics and artificial intelligence, a scientist, educator, inventor and entrepreneur...more>> EdDive: Should student sleep patterns be considered when planning 1:1 devices? British researchers conducted a meta-analysis of 20 recent studies about student device use and sleep quantity, quality and daytime sleepiness, finding cause for concern when it comes to sending devices home with students...more>> Hack Education: The Business of Education Technology In previous years, when I've written about this topic, I've saved "The Business of Ed-tech" for one of the last articles in my "Top Ed-Tech Trends" series...more>> EdSource: Growth of career programs emphasizing hands-on learning offer students new opportunities Angelica Verde, a senior at Tustin High in Orange County, spent last summer immersed in her dream internship, shadowing engineers at the Boeing Company as they worked on the latest technology in space exploration...more>> Hechinger: A shocking number of young people can't separate fact from fiction online Stanford education researchers share their discouraging research...more>> TechRepublic: Can 'MicroMasters' credentials help fill the tech skills gap? Nonprofit education platform edX recently announced a credential program to teach employees skills in AI, user interface design, and project management. Here's what your company needs to know...more>> THE Journal: Report: Flipped and Mobile Helping to Drive Growing Momentum in E-Learning Content and Courses The generic e-learning course market is projected to grow by 8 percent per year over the next four years, driven primarily by growth in general purpose learning applications, cost-effectiveness of generic e-learning courses and increased adoption of mobile learning...more>> Your story: Entrepreneurs lap up byte-sized education Entrepreneurs have to be super-humans. A statement like this makes you wonder what I mean. Well, while there are multiple people performing different roles in a company, often across departments and geographies, the entrepreneur usually fulfills all the roles by himself...more>> The Economist: China battles foreign influence in education China has long oscillated between the urge to equip its elite with foreign knowledge and skills, and an opposing instinct to turn inward and rebuff such influences...more>> EdDive: Students of all ages have trouble assessing online content for validity Stanford University researchers have identified troubling statistics about the critical thinking skills of students who grew up as "digital natives," finding that they don't seem to be able to adequately assess quality and validity of online content...more>> NPR: We Tracked Down A Fake-News Creator In The Suburbs. Here's What We Learned A lot of fake and misleading news stories were shared across social media during the election. One that got a lot of traffic had this headline: "FBI Agent Suspected In Hillary Email Leaks Found Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide."...more>> Georgetown Public Policy: Technological Automation and the Soft Skill Revolution In 2014 technology research firm Gartner projected that one-third of global jobs will be replaced by robotics, software, or machine learning by 2025...more>> EdWeek: Many Students 'Stop Out' of High School, Studies Find For many students, dropping out of high school isn't the end of the line but a "stop out" along the path to a diploma, new federal and state data suggest...more>> Corporate Training Market to Grow Nearly 11% CAGR to 2020 The global corporate training market analyst says one trend gaining traction in the market is migration towards NGDLE. The global corporate sector is strongly focusing on implementing cost-effective learning and development programs by merging traditional and digital learning formats...more>> Bloomberg: Actually, There Are Still Good Blue-Collar Jobs Tom Berryman knows how to put young people in some pretty sweet blue-collar jobs...more>> HBS Working Knowledge: It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales Sales appears to be getting short-changed in the C-suite, says Frank Cespedes. What's needed are more links between top executives and the customer-facing side of the business...more>> EdTech: How Virtual Reality Could Change the Way Students Experience Education High-impact learning experiences may become the norm, expanding access for all students...more>> EdDive: LinkedIn posts nation's most popular entry-level jobs LinkedIn this week posted the nation's most popular industries and workplaces for new college graduates, based upon reporting from the site's database of user data on jobs earned and salaries...more>> EdSurge: Wearable Tech Weaves Its Way Into Learning Eye-trackers that detect when your mind is wandering. Clothes that let you "feel" what it's like to be in someone else's body. Sensors that connect your heart rate to how engaged you are in class. These are the kinds of wearable technologies that could soon impact how we learn...more>> The EvoLLLution: Digital Badges Transforming Non-Credit Education: Credit-Bearing Programming Next Digital badges are transforming the non-credit and professional education space, but they are making headway into the credit-bearing side of higher education as they become more mainstream...more>> eSchoolNews: Down with OTT? 3 ways this technology is a new must for education There's a new catch phrase in town, and it has massive implications for blended and online learning, especially as OER use begins to ramp up in schools and institutions across the country. It's called OTT and yeah, you're going to need to know it...more>> EdDive: Coursera embraces Netflix subscription model for course access Coursera is shifting away from a pay-by-the-course model towards a monthly subscription plan to encourage "binge learning," Financial Times reports...more>> Politico: Sobering Reality of Prison Inmate The average incarcerated adult in the U.S. scores so low in the ability to understand and work with numbers - numeracy skills, in research parlance - that they lag behind the unemployed, according to a report released today by the National Center for Education Statistics...more>> Recode: LinkedIn's CEO says the U.S. cares too much about four-year college degrees Skills, not diplomas, need to be valued more, says Jeff Weiner...more>> CLO: 6 Best Practices We Can All Get Behind Employees don't exist in a performance vacuum, and their environment and organization systems impact the results they produce. Here are six practices no learning leader will disagree with...more>> CLO: How to Conduct a Learning Audit Learning and development strategies are like trends - they come and they go. A learning audit can help identify which strategies will produce exactly what the workforce and business need to succeed...more>> Chronicle of Higher Ed: The New Intellectuals Is the academic jobs crisis a boon to public culture?...more>> The Telegraph: You might find your next job on Facebook An unprofessional Facebook profile has sank many a job application in the past, but the social network now wants to become a central part of job searching, working on a recruiting tool that allows potential employees to automatically include profile data in applications...more>> The Keyword: Learning is the work of the future A generation ago, teachers could expect that what they taught would last for the life of their students. Today, schools need to prepare students for more rapid economic and social change than ever before, for jobs that haven't been created, to use technologies that haven't yet been invented, and to solve social problems that we can't yet imagine...more>> Stanford Business: John Donahoe: Dump the Myth of the High Achiever The former CEO of eBay encourages students to build a life outside of work and find creative solutions to problems...more>> Fast Company: U.S. Employers Have Too Much Available Labor, Not Enough Available Talent According to a recent survey of 42,300 employers around the world by The Manpower Group, a Milwaukee-based human resource consulting firm, 46% of American employers are having difficulty filling jobs, surpassing global averages...more>> Chronicle: How Students Cheat in a High-Tech World Cheating has always involved elaborate schemes, but now they are increasingly complex and multinational. Chronicle reporters look at how students in the United States use internet searches to find surrogates overseas to do their work for them...more>> MIT Tech Review: 50 Smartest Companies 2016 Our editors pick the 50 companies that best combine innovative technology with an effective business model...more>> Financial Express: A huge corporate education technology market is in the making In the US, companies spend up to 10% of their employee costs on learning & development. In India, they spend just 1-2%. Why this gap?...more>> Distance Learning Market in India - Analysis, Technologies & Forecasts to 2020 - Key Vendors are EduKart, SchoolGuru & IGNOU - Research and Markets Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Distance Learning Market in India 2016-2020" report to their offering...more>> EdDive: Could German vocational model be a standard for US workforce development? The Wall Street Journal reports on the success of Germany's vocational apprenticeship program, which helps workers earn about 92% of the nation's average working wage, versus 70% for American high school graduates...more>> SHRM: Employers Are Facing the Worst Talent Shortage Since 2007 Employers across the globe are facing the most acute talent shortage since the Great Recession, according to ManpowerGroup's latest Talent Shortage Survey...more>> EdWeek: K-12 Dealmaking: brightwheel Acquires MyChild; CollegeVine Raises $3.1 Million The month of November started off with an acquisition and an infusion of venture capital. Classroom management solution brightwheel acquired the MyChild platform, while CollegeVine, a college application mentoring solution, gained $3.1 million in funding, and a Finnish ed-tech company with a social-emotional learning tool received an initial round...more>> Forbes: Hard Work Or Natural Talent? Study Reveals What Impresses Hiring Managers the Most ...According to a new study conducted by University College London professor Chia-Jung Tsay, when it comes to impressing a hiring manager, natural talent beats experience...more>> Sixth Tone: How WeChat Is Reshaping Online Education Instead of luring students onto specialized platforms, Chinese teachers have found an existing app to be more popular...more>> HBR: Why the Problem with Learning Is Unlearning Ever since the publication of Peter Senge's The Fifth Discipline, 25 years ago, companies have sought to become "learning organizations" that continually transform themselves...more>> |
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