Affirmative action for college admissions could get axed by the Supreme Court
The US Supreme Court has taken up two cases against affirmative action in college admissions. Students for Fair Admissions, Inc....
Competency based education is having a moment
Competency based education (CBE), sometimes called outcome based education, has for years been a utopian ideal for technocratic reformers. The...
Computational Thinking and why its important for kids
Computational Thinking (CT) is emerging as a new key intellectual skill for children. In a 2021 ACM paper called Computational...
“Zoom seemed to bring more students into the conversation” and other pandemic insights from Stanford
Stanford just released a comprehensive educational report on the pandemic focusing on the “emergency remote teaching phase” which they identify...
A Federal court has temporarily blocked student loan forgiveness
The attacks on Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness plan were dealt back to back losses on Thursday when Supreme Court Justice...
3 reasons Social Emotional Learning is Vital
Social Emotional Learning has become one of the “hot buzzwords” in education and EdTech, but at its core, it has...
Big Data and student performance: Insights from an LMS
In our recent story about Google buying BrightBytes, there was a lot of discussion about what kind of data is...
Google is taking a silent step into the ed data space by buying BrightBytes
Google has confirmed to EdSurge that it bought educational data company BrightBytes for an undisclosed amount sometime around mid-May 2022. ...
The student loan debt relief application is here!
Although it is currently only a beta, you can currently submit your application to have up to $20,000 in student...
Republicans are mounting their attack on Biden’s student loan forgiveness
President Biden’s student loan forgiveness program is facing its toughest challenge so far from Republican-led states (Iowa, South Carolina, Kansas,...