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Hack Education Weekly News

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education.

(National) Education Politics

In the long list of things the POTUS doesn’t “get,” we can add this (via The Atlantic): “Donald Trump Doesn’t Understand Community Colleges.”

Via The Washington Post: “Education Secretary Betsy DeVos asked whether leakers could be prosecuted, internal report shows.”

New America on “The Department of Deregulation: DeVos’ New Regulatory Agenda to Roll Back Protections for Students.”

Via Buzzfeed: “17 Colleges Fell Short On Campus Safety, But The Education Department Didn’t Tell The Schools.”

There’s some accreditation news out of the Department of Education in the accreditation section below.

Via Education Week: “FCC Chair Moves to Block E-Rate Funds for Companies Deemed ‘Security Risk’.”

(State and Local) Education Politics

From The New York Times’ Dana Goldstein: “Teachers in Oklahoma and Kentucky Walk Out: ‘It Really Is a Wildfire’.”

Via NPR: “Oklahoma’s Teachers Continue Walkout As Lawmakers Vote On More Education Funds.”

There are a few more stories about teachers’ strikes in the HR section below.

Via Chalkbeat: “In Betsy DeVos’ home state, a program that steers public dollars to private school students is under fire from the governor.” That’s Michigan, for what it’s worth. Add those are vouchers.

Via Detroit Free Press: “More Michigan schools are failing: Most are charters.”

Via The New York Times, a profile on the Indiana charter chain Excel Schools: “A Chance for Dropouts, Young and Old, to Go Back to School.”

Via Edsurge: “Data is Good – But Not Enough – to Improve Education, Says Baltimore City Public Schools CEO.” This is my shocked face.

Immigration and Education

Via Inside Higher Ed: “The State Department is proposing to ask additional questions of visa applicants regarding their social media usage.”

There’s more visa-related news in the for-profit section below.

“Free College”

New Jersey Moves Toward Free Community College,” says The Wall Street Journal.

Via Inside Higher Ed: “Missouri Has Free Tuition… for Its Legislators.”

College Affordability and the Business of Financial Aid

Via The New York Times: “Even With Scholarships, Students Often Need Extra Financial Help.”

Via The New York Times: “Middle-Class Families Increasingly Look to Community Colleges.”

Via The New York Times: “An International Final Four: Which Country Handles Student Debt Best?”

There’s more data on debt in the data and research section below.

The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed

Via Republic Report: “Grassley Attacks ACICS-Approved For-Profit Colleges As ‘Visa Mills’.” That’s Senator Chuck Grassley.

There’s some ACICS accreditation news in the accreditation section below.

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”)

“The MOOC is not dead, but maybe it should be,” says Rolin Moe.

Via Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill: “Online Program Management: Spring 2018 view of the market landscape.”

Meanwhile on Campus…

The first byline (I think) from The Atlantic’s Adam Harris: “How the Howard University Protests Hint at the Future of Campus Politics.” More on how the school is responding to student protests by Harris’s former employer, The Chronicle of Higher Education. And more in The New York Times.

Via The Chicago Tribune: “Video captures University of Chicago police officer shooting student near campus; charges filed against student.”

Via NPR: “Parkland Students Return To School Skeptical Of Clear Backpacks.”

Via NPR: “Professors Are Targets In Online Culture Wars; Some Fight Back.”

Inside Higher Ed looks at how the North Dakota University System is “Blocking Child Porn on Campus.”

Accreditations and Certifications and Competencies

Via Inside Higher Ed: “Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said in a signed order Tuesday that she was restoring the federal recognition of the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, the for-profit accreditor that had waged a fight for reinstatement since the Obama administration withdrew its recognition in 2016.” More via The Chronicle of Higher Education.

“Students Want Faster Degrees,” The Chronicle of Higher Education argues. “Colleges Are Responding.”

Testing

Chalkbeat on NAEP: “The national test of students’ progress has gone digital. A state leader is raising questions about what that means.”

Via Inside Higher Ed: “GMAT Drops 30 Minutes From Test.”

Via The New York Times: “For the ACT and the SAT, Pencils No Longer Required, but Sometimes Necessary.”

A hate-read from Jacobin that claims it’s making “The Progressive Case for the SAT.” Trigger warning: FdB.

Via Chalkbeat: “Here’s the list of Tennessee school districts choosing to test younger students online this year.” Sorry. You’re going to have to click for the list.

Via The New York Times: “Law Schools Debate a Contentious Testing Alternative.”

Go, School Sports Team!

Via ESPN: “The Arizona Board of Regents will vote this week whether to add language to men’s basketball coach Sean Miller’s contract that would require him to return $1 million if he’s charged with a crime or found guilty of major NCAA violations.” He’d still earn $3.1 million.

Labor Issues and Other Memos from HR

“Why is the media – including the liberal media – supporting these teachers’ strikes?” asks Corey Robin.

Via The Atlantic: “The Larger Concerns Behind the Teachers’ Strikes.”

Via Edsurge (which also ran a number of stories this week to promote an event in which you can get a “gig”): “The Data Tells All: Teacher Salaries Have Been Declining For Years.”

Via The Chronicle of Higher Education: “Rochester Professor at Center of Harassment Controversy Will Return to Teaching.”

Via The New York Times: “Homework Therapists’ Job: Help Solve Math Problems, and Emotional Ones.” “Homework therapist.” Well, I guess I need to keep an eye on how the tutoring industry rebrands itself what with all the investment dollars it’s receiving.

The Business of Job Training

Via The Chronicle of Higher Education: “Colleges Enter Competition With Coding Boot Camps.”

Via Edsurge: “Leif, a fintech investment group, is giving $10 million to support future students at the online coding bootcamp Thinkful.” Warning: income sharing agreements.

Via the AP: “Wyoming begins path to computer science courses in schools.”

This Week in Betteridge’s Law of Headlines

Does Ready Player One reveal the future of VR?asks Edsurge.

(Reminder: according to Betteridge’s Law of Headlines, “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”)

Upgrades and Downgrades

Via Edsurge: “Padlet’s Price Update Riles Teachers, Raises Questions About Sustainability of Freemium Models.”

TenMarks joins the ed-tech dead pool. Edsurge has the story. “After Amazon’s TenMarks shuts down, what then for K–12 schools and Amazon?” asks GeekWire’s Frank Catalano.

Via Edsurge: “Still in the K–12 Jungle: Amazon Partners With Edhesive to Bring CS Education to Schools.”

Via the Google blog: “Rolling Study Halls: turning bus time into learning time.” The Verge covers the blog post: “Google is equipping more rural school buses with Wi-Fi and Chromebooks.”

Via Techcrunch: “What Apple’s education announcements mean for accessibility.”

Via The Verge: “Teachers weigh in on Apple’s push for more iPads in school.”

“Schools won’t like how difficult the new iPad is to repair,” says The Verge.

“A Response to Larry Berger’s ‘Confession’ on Personalized Learning” by New Classrooms’ Joel Rose.

Here’s a lede for you: “Once upon a time, the classrooms had four walls, dusty chalkboards and uncomfortable desks in straight little rows. Students were silent, repeated what they were told and limited by their past experiences.” I’m not sure when this was or where this was. And now there’s VR and I guess that changes everything.

Via The MIT Technology Review: “MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain uploading.”

Robots and Other Education Science Fiction

“Now you can use your Echo to call the kids for dinner,” Techcrunch wants you to know. Because nothing says “disruptive innovation” like not hollering at your children.

Via The New York Times: “Schools Offering Drone Programs, but Learning to Fly Is Just the Start.”

(Venture) Philanthropy and the Business of Education Reform

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative sponsors content on Edsurge. This week, the sponsorship includes an article on self directed learning, an article on profiling students, an article on a “failing school” in Baltimore.

Salesforce also sponsors content on Edsurge. This week’s sponsored stories include several articles on student success: 1, 2.

Via Techcrunch: “Mission Bit, a nonprofit organization that teaches high school students computer science, has received a $1 million five-year grant from the San Francisco Department of Children, Youth and Their Families.”

Via Education Week: “Tech Giants Announce New Funding for 1-to–1 Devices, Computer Science Education.” The giants in question – and to be clear these aren’t necessarily “philanthropic” efforts but I’m not sure where to put them – are Verizon Innovative Learning and Amazon.

Venture Capital and the Business of Education

3DBear has raised $1.5 million in seed funding from LearnStart (Learn Capital) and Rethink Education. The 3D modeling company has raised $2.8 million total.

New Mountain Learning has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from the private equity firm CIP Capital.

Really Good Stuff, a subsidiary of Excelligence Learning Corporation, has acquired Steve Spangler Science.

Corwin has acquired Cognition Education Group.

Via Techcrunch: “Utah education technology unicorn Pluralsight files for IPO.” More from Edsurge.

Pearson’s Annual Report (2017) – my favorite part is how the numbers that are showcased on this web page are all green, even though they’re downward trending. I guessing putting them in red would be too obvious.

Data, Surveillance, and Information Security

Via The New York Times: “Facebook Says Cambridge Analytica Harvested Data of Up to 87 Million Users.”

“Protecting Student Privacy in a Time of Uncertainty” by Summit Public Schools’ Diane Tavenner. (Reminder that Facebook built the Summit Learning Platform.)

Via The Washington Post: “Facebook and the very real problem of keeping student data private.”

Via The Atlantic: “‘Free-Range’ Parenting’s Unfair Double Standard.”

Research, “Research,” and Reports

My ongoing funding research: “The Business of Ed-Tech: March 2018 Funding Data.”

Via EdWeek’s Market Brief: “Procuring digital learning tools and technology to help educate students with special needs are two of 10 ‘hotspots’ in government contracting for 2018, according to an analysis of bids and RFPs conducted by GovWin+Onvia from Deltek.”

From the NCES, a look at “the homework gap”: “Student Access to Digital Learning Resources Outside of the Classroom.” Education Week talks about the study: “Students’ Home Internet, Computer Access: 10 Numbers to Know.”

Edsurge writes a headline that almost goes in the Betteridge section: “Is Technology Bad for the Teenage Brain? (Yes, No and It’s Complicated.)”

Inside Higher Ed on a new survey of KIPP alumni: “A new survey of thousands of college students – most of them low income, minority and first generation – suggests that colleges and universities should emulate historically black colleges and universities’ efforts to make students feel they belong on campus.”

Via Chalkbeat: “How are Indiana charter schools doing? 9 things to know from the state’s first study.”

A study finds it cannot reproduce the “reproducibility crisis.”

Via Campus Technology: “Online Ed Leaders Agree Top 2 Indicators of Program Quality Are Student Success Rates, Student Evaluations.” Considering what we know about student evaluations and bias, this seems like a very very bad thing to agree on.

Via The Outline: “So-called ‘intellectuals’ can’t let go of ‘The Bell Curve’.”

From the Urban Institute: “Debt in America: An Interactive Map.”

A new report from the WI Hope Lab: “Still hungry and homeless in college.” The amazing Sara Goldrick-Rab talked about the study on NPR.

A hate-read from The Next Web: “Researchers are using VR to help teachers understand autism.”

Via Education Week: “Virtual Reality and Children: ‘We Just Don’t Know That Much,’ Report Finds.”

Some history from Stanford’s Larry Cuban: “Progressivism in Schools: the Field Trip.”

From the GAO: “Discipline Disparities for Black Students, Boys, and Students with Disabilities.”

Via The New York Times: “An Expert’s View: Sir Ken Robinson.” What makes Robinson an expert?

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What Are the Best Books about the History of Education Technology?

As many of you know, I’m working on a book proposal for Teaching Machines, a project I’ve had on the back burner for far too long now that is finally starting to come to a boil.

What do you think are the best existing works of history of the field of education technology?

Here are some titles that quickly come to mind – because I can read their titles on my bookshelf. (It’s worth noting, I suppose, that these are mostly quite dated, and they’re all by men. And I am not endorsing these as “the best.”)

  • Larry Cuban, Teachers and Machines: The Classroom Use of Technology Since 1920 (1986)
  • Brian Dear, The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture (2017)
  • Bill Ferster, Teaching Machines (2014)
  • Bob Johnstone, Never Mind the Laptops: Kids, Computers, and the Transformation of Learning (2003)
  • David Noble, Digital Diploma Mills (2001)
  • William Schramm, Bold Experiment: The Story of Educational Television in American Samoa (1981)
  • Paul Saettler, The Evolution of American Educational Technology (1990)
  • —, A History of Instructional Technology (1967)

I must be missing a ton here, so if you have suggestions (particularly books by authors of color or white women and particularly histories of ed-tech outside the US), I’d love to hear them. (And I will try to keep this article updated with new titles.)

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Hack Education Weekly News

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education.

(National and Global) Education Politics

Via Inside Higher Ed: “The budget bill President Trump signed Friday fixes a technical problem for private scholarship providers that rely on federal student aid data to help students pay for college.”

Via EdWeek’s Market Brief: “$1.1 Billion Federal Block Grant Makes Ed-Tech Training Higher Priority Than Software, Devices.”

Via Inside Higher Ed: “Professors Targeted in Iranian Cyberattack.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education: “U.S. Discovery of Iranian Cyberattack Doesn’t Seem to Alarm Universities.”

There’s more on student loans in the “financial aid” section below.

Florida Senator Marco Rubio says he has changed his mind about philosophers, he tweeted. Amazing what reading a book will do for you.

This, on school shootings, absolutely gutted me.

(State and Local) Education Politics

Via Chalkbeat: “Memphis school segregation worse than 50 years ago.”

Via The Deseret News: “Utah governor signs law legalizing ‘free-range parenting’.”

Via Chalkbeat: “Over 40 percent of Newark students could attend charter schools within five years. Here’s how.”

Via The Miami Herald: “Teachers can’t afford Miami rents. The county has a plan: Let them live at school.”

Via Chalkbeat: “New York City students can now pass Spanish exam on path to graduation.”

Education in the Courts

Via Inside Higher Ed: “The Obama administration’s Education Department failed to consider key evidence when it reviewed and ultimately terminated its recognition of the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools in 2016, a federal judge ruled late Friday.” That’s late last Friday, for what it’s worth.

Via Chalkbeat: “Case challenging teacher tenure in New York will go on, despite union’s objections.”

Via Inside Higher Ed: “California Supreme Court has determined public colleges in the state must warn and shield their students from potential violent acts. Experts say the ruling could have nationwide implications.”

There’s more about Larry Nassar, Michigan State, and sexual harassment and assault in the “sports team” section below.

The Business of Financial Aid

Via Inside Higher Ed: “High Default Rates at New York For-Profit Colleges.”

Via NPR: “Dept. Of Education Fail: Teachers Lose Grants, Forced To Repay Thousands In Loans.”

Via Bloomberg: “Student Debt Is a Harsh Math Lesson for U.S. Graduates.”

The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed

Strayer is “bucking the trend,” says Inside Higher Ed. “Strayer restarts its campus expansion amid growing enrollment, federal deregulation and increased demand for skilled workers.”

There’s more for-profit news in the “financial aid” section below and in the “courts” section above.

Meanwhile on Campus…

Edsurge profiles Wayfinding Academy, a new non-profit 2-year (and as of now, unaccredited) college in Oregon.

“This Silicon Valley High School Is the Ultimate Incubator,” says Wired. That’s d.tech.

Via The Guardian: “Open University plans major cuts to number of staff and courses.”

Via The Washington Post: “After backlash over plan to cut 13 humanities majors, U-Wisconsin campus drawing up second proposal.”

Via The Chronicle of Higher Education: “Hobart and William Smith Investigates Claims That Its President Plagiarized Dissertation.”

The Chronicle of Higher Education on Mississippi Valley State University: “They Wanted Desegregation. They Settled for Money, and It’s About to Run Out.”

Via Wired: “An Alternate Reality Game That Takes Freshman Orientation to a New Level.” That’s at the University of Chicago.

Via The New York Times: “At Columbia, Revisiting the Revolutionary Students of 1968.”

The Wall Street Journal saysU.S. Colleges Are Separating Into Winners and Losers.”

Accreditations and Certifications and Competencies

There’s some research on credentialing in the “research” section below. And there’s news about legal challenges around accreditation in the “courts” section above.

Go, School Sports Team!

Via The Chronicle of Higher Education: “Former Dean Who Oversaw Nassar at Michigan State Is Arrested.”

Via The Atlantic: “The Problems at Michigan State Went Far Beyond Larry Nassar.”

Via NPR: “Report: Michigan State Spent $500,000 To Keep Tabs On Nassar Victims, Journalists.”

Memos from HR

Patrick Methvin will head the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s postsecondary work.

Via The Washington Post: “Howard University fires six employees after investigation into misappropriated funding.”

Via The Chronicle of Higher Education: “Edinboro President, Who Boasted of His Ability to Circumvent Faculty Resistance, Will Resign.”

Via The Guardian: “Toby Young quits New Schools Network, citing media pressure.”

Edsurge offers “A Word of Caution Before Hiring a Director of Personalized Learning.” The story was “made publicly available with support from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which had no influence over the content in this story.”

There are labor-related court cases in the “courts” section above.

Upgrades and Downgrades

From the Google blog: “Chromebook tablets for versatile learning.” Repeating the PR, Edsurge and Techcrunch.

Speaking of Google, Wired reports that “Children’s YouTube is still churning out blood, suicide and cannibalism.”

Also via Wired: “Companies Are Cashing in on Reality TV for Tots.”

Apple held one of its big media events this week, this one focused on education. Cue the “hot takes.” Cue the repetition of corporate messaging. Via Wired: “How Apple Lost Its Place in the Classroom.” Via The New York Times: “Apple Unveils New iPad to Catch Google in the Classroom.” Via The Verge: “Apple is ready to fight Google’s Chromebooks with cheaper iPads.” Also via The Verge: “Apple’s new iPad with Pencil support is just $299 for schools.” Via Edsurge: “Apple’s Strongest Case to Reclaim the Education Market Is Not the New iPad.” No one mentioned privacy as a key selling point of Apple versus Google. Weird. It’s almost like those in ed-tech don’t ever think about that issue.

Via Wired: “Why Some Schools Pay More Than Others When Buying From Apple.”

Via Techcrunch: “Comparing Apple, Google and Microsoft’s education plays.”

From the press release: “Microsoft Education and Open Up Resources announce partnership to deliver top rated math curriculum.”

The Hechinger Report profiles Siembra, an app that encourages first generation students to go to college.

Via Mindshift: “Why It’s Time to Rethink School Science Fairs.”

Via the AP: “Self-taught rocket scientist blasts off into California sky.”

Via The Verge: “The Oregon Trail handheld game is a really fun nostalgia gadget.” I mean, I guess…

Via The San Francisco Chronicle: “Bonanza for schools as SF crypto king Ripple gives $29M to DonorsChoose.org.” Via Edsurge: “Inside the $29M DonorsChoose Gift That’s Making Teachers Very Happy.” More via Chalkbeat. Disappointingly little mention in any of these stories about the shady history of cryptocurrency, including Ripple’s own history.

Speaking of blockchain scamminess, David Gerard writes about the latest application of blockchain to education: “Woolf University: college courses literally on the Ethereum blockchain.”

The Business of Job Training

Udacity held a big PR event this week. These sorts of things are great – the tech press shows up and writes your marketing copy for you. Here’s Edsurge: “Udacity VP of Learning: ‘We Never Start Anything Out of Academic Interest’.” Here’s Techcrunch: “Udacity introduces real robots and virtual words to help students build skills.” Here’s Techcrunch again: “Udacity debuts a dedicated School of AI with three new nanodegrees.”

Coding Bootcamps Cross the Chasm,” according to Edsurge, which applies the “Hype Cycle” to the future of the business.

Apple event PR (and there’s much more in the “upgrade” section):

Via The Verge: “Apple is creating a center in Chicago where teachers can train to code.”

Via Techcrunch: “Apple’s learn-to-code app Swift Playgrounds adds AR lessons.”

This Week in Betteridge’s Law of Headlines

Can Big Data Change a Wicked School Truancy Problem?asks Edsurge.

Can the Right Nudge Help Low-income Kids Go Beyond High School?asks Mindshift.

Are K–12 data systems ready for AI?asks eSchool News.

Are You Flipping the Wrong Way?asks Inside Higher Ed.

(Reminder: according to Betteridge’s Law of Headlines, “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”)

Robots and Other Education Science Fiction

There’s more robot news in the job training section above.

“How Could Artificial Intelligence Shape the Future of Higher Education?” asks Edsurge.

Drones help connect the dots on math, coding concepts,” says Education Dive.

Via George Veletsianos: “Bots, AI, & Education” – updates 2 and 3 on his book project.

Via Campus Technology: “Cornell Researchers Use AI to Understand Students’ Math Struggles.”

(Venture) Philanthropy and the Business of Education Reform

There’s some Gates Foundation HR news in the “HR” section above. And I guess the DonorsChoose news could be construed “philanthropy” (but I prefer to think of it as PR).

Venture Capital and the Business of Education

Job training company BetterUp has raised $26 million from Lightspeed Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Freestyle Capital, and DFJ Growth. It’s raised $38.9 million total.

ClassWallet has raised $735,000 from Florida Founders. The company has raised $4.8 million total.

Permission Click has raised an undisclosed amount of money from an undisclosed inventor. The company has raised about $1.4 million total.

Eupheus Learning has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Sixth Sense Ventures.

Watermark has raised an undisclosed amount of money from TCV (which will take a controlling stake in the company), Quad Partners, and Exceed Capital Partners. Watermark is the company made up from the merger of Tk20, Taskstream, and Livetext.

Data, Surveillance, and Information Security

Ben Williamson on “Learning from psychographic personality profiling.”

Via Edsurge: “Three Reasons Academic Advisors Should Be a Go-To Resource for Student Success Efforts.” “This article is part of a Guide exploring innovations in student success, which is sponsored by Salesforce.org.” Also via Edsurge: “How Data Can Highlight the Human Touch in Student Advising.” Unlike other recent stories sponsored by Salesforce, this one is clearly marked “sponsored content” on the home page. Perhaps because it was written by Salesforce.

Apologies for linking to Reason: “University of Virginia Hires ‘Social Sentinel’ to Monitor Students’ Social Media Posts.”

From Geek Dad: “Jiobit Follows the Kids When You Cannot.”

Someone is watching you,” says Purdue President Mitch Daniels. Indeed.

Research, “Research,” and Reports

Via Wired: “A Brief History of Screen Panic.”

According to a report from Quality Matters and Eduventures (as covered by Campus Technology), “Adaptive Learning, Learning Analytics Are Most Wanted Tech for Online Programs.”

Via Inside Higher Ed: “Attainment Increases With Nondegree Credentials.”

“The University of Texas System releases a new breakdown of student earnings, an alternative – produced with U.S. Census Bureau – to a prohibited federal database,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education: “A New Tool Breaks Down Earnings Potential for Different Majors. Here’s What You Need to Know.”

Via Education Week: “Personalized Learning Pilot Program Reports Gains in Literacy Scores.”

Via Fortune: “1 in 5 University Students Used Loan Money for Cryptocurrency Investments.” I’m not sure that’s actually true, but it makes for a nice headline, I guess.

Via Wired: “Teen Driving by the Numbers.”

Via Futurism: “The Typical Hoverboard Injury Happens to Exactly Who You’d Think: 11-Year-Old White Boys.”

As part of my research for my book (proposal), I’m looking for the papers – correspondences, letters, diaries, and so on – of Norman Crowder. Can you help?

RIP

The New York Times obituary: “Linda Brown, Symbol of Landmark Desegregation Case, Dies at 75.”

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