Dr. Vince Carbino and the relationships behind personalized learning
When we talk about education on this site, we are often talking about the systems of education. Curricula, standards, teacher...
Justin Reich on Learning Loss, Subtraction in Action, and a future with much more disrupted schooling
Justin Reich is an education and technology researcher and the director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab. He hosts a podcast...
7 Ideas for Remaking Higher Educaiton
Higher education has some issues. Its cost keeps rising and even if we ever get one time student loan forgiveness,...
HMH is buying NWEA: The giants keep getting giant-er
There is further consolidation in the EdTech industry as a publishing giant, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, is buying the Oregon-based assessment...
Education’s Financial Hangover after the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic changed education very quickly. K-12 schools and Universities started doing classes over zoom, the online tutoring industry...
ChatGPT and student essays: Is this the end of homework?
Do you think you could spot something that was written by artificial Intelligence? If you have been paying attention to...
Transcend Education’s new database aims to open up K-12 innovation
One of the themes that we discuss on this site is how difficult it can be to change the way...
2U is laying off 20% of its workforce
Online program manager (OPM) 2U, Inc has announced a 20% layoff. OPMs have been in congressional crosshairs lately. 2U’s business...
The House Appropriations Committee is Coming for OPMs
A couple months ago we reported that the Government Accountability Office wanted the Dept. of Education to monitor tuition sharing...
Six Great Math Games for Every Age
In Failure to Disrupt, Justin Reich proposes that math education is the subject most enhanced by the use of Edtech....