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Mixed Reactions to the Latest College Admissions Scandal
Parents are giving up custody of their kids to get need-based college financial aid. That was a headline last week in ProPublica Illinois, and it got…
6 years, 9 months ago
How to Bring ‘Mastery Learning’ to the Classroom
One of the most popular topics these days in education is mastery learning—the idea that the pace of a class should match what each student is ready …
6 years, 10 months ago
What 6 Million Syllabi Reveal About Higher Education
What if you could map every book and article assigned in college courses around the world and see which authors are making the most impact? A project…
6 years, 10 months ago
Bonus Episode: When an Online Teaching Job Becomes a Window into Child Abuse
Online tutoring is big business—especially for a growing number of companies that connect native English-speaking teachers with children in China for…
6 years, 10 months ago
Sal Khan: Test Prep Is ’the Last Thing We Want to Be’
For most of us, hearing something just once isn’t nearly enough to commit it to memory. But with today’s crowded curriculum, sometimes one explanatio…
6 years, 10 months ago
What Impact Investing Means in Education
“Impact investing” is a term that has become increasingly trendy. And one of the largest higher-ed foundations—The Lumina Foundation—is getting in th…
6 years, 10 months ago
Meet Anthony Johnson: Teacher of the Year. Rebel ‘Mayor.’ High School Drop-Out.
This week’s podcast features an unlikely education leader. His name is Anthony Johnson, and the title of his book explains the unlikely part: it’s ca…
6 years, 11 months ago
Higher Ed Has Become an 'Entrepreneurial and Philanthropic Wild West’
Plenty of groups these days are trying to reinvent college. There are entrepreneurs and foundations rushing to try to offer higher education in new s…
6 years, 11 months ago
What It’s Like Navigating the Strictest Student Privacy Law in the Country
In Louisiana, educators have to worry about privacy when it comes to technology. The state has perhaps the most restrictive data-privacy law in the c…
6 years, 11 months ago
Can Work Be Dignified in an Automated World?
“Someone should create a Center for Social Solutions, identify a handful of challenges and try to work on them over the next decade.” That directive …
6 years, 11 months ago