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The Gates Foundation has backed a variety of education reform initiatives : charter schools, the CommonCore State Standards, “small schools,” inBloom, teacher evaluations, and yes, “personalized learning.” Pearson, for one.)
” The company – funded by Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Pearson, Learn Capital, and others – says it will remain open. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Education Dive makes claims about “ MOOCs as tools for equity in under-resourced high schools.”
.” “Make MOOCs great again.” “ ESSA Would Handcuff a Trump Education Secretary on CommonCore And More,” says Education Week , even though ditching CommonCore was one of Trump’s campaign promises. . More on the future of CommonCore from NPR. Is that possible?
Testing, Testing… Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “British Officials, Pearson Probe Effort to Leak Test Content.” ” Via Chalkbeat : “They rejected multi-state CommonCore exams. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). – this time in science. ” asks Edsurge.
In 2012, Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education sued Boundless Learning, claiming that the open education textbook startup had “stolen the creative expression of their authors and editors, violating their intellectual-property rights.” Pearson PARCC "Spies" on Students. Textbook Publishers vs. Boundless.
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Brown University joins edX. “ Y Combinator MOOC for Tech Startups Attracts Thousands of Views,” says Campus Technology. Not sure why this is called a MOOC. The Business of Job Training. ” This Week in Betteridge’s Law of Headlines.
Turns out that Pearson, which once funded and acquired a lot of startups, isn’t in particularly good financial shape itself.). You can see neoliberalism, for example, in efforts towards privatization and the outsourcing of core technological capacities to third party vendors. ” Despite raising some $87.5
“Anti- CommonCore Groups Unhappy About Trump Ed Secretary Pick Betsy DeVos ,” says the Sunshine State News. ’” Online Education, Beyond “MOOCs” Via Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill : “The Remarkable Transformation at UF Online.” million to Ohio.”
According to the conservative news site The Daily Caller , “Bailing On CommonCore Tests Is Costing States Millions.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Here’s The Chronicle headline from then : “Professor Leaves a MOOC in Mid-Course in Dispute Over Teaching.”)
“ Pearson gets emergency test scoring contract from Tennessee ,” Chalkbeat reports. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). .” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Pearson hearts coding bootcamps. No word on tuition.
Testing, Testing… Via Education Week : “After seven years of tumult and transition fueled by the commoncore, state testing is settling down, with most states rejecting the federally funded PARCC and Smarter Balanced assessments, and nearly one-quarter embracing the SAT or the ACT as their official high school test.”
” Via KJZZ : “ Arizona Board Of Education Replaces CommonCore State Standards.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Buzzfeed : “ Online Charter Schools Prepare For A Trump-Era Boom.” ” The Trump Administration. ” Icon credits: The Noun Project
Testing, Testing… Via Education Week : “The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium , a major designer of common-core tests for states, is looking for a new fiscal agent after the University of California, Los Angeles, said it will no longer do that work.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).
” Despite all the CommonCore-aligned revisions and all the headlines to the contrary, “ The New SAT Won’t Close the Achievement Gap.” Other companies with similar models: Spark Schools, which raised $9 million this year from the Omidyar Network and Pearson, and APEC, also funded by Pearson.
Testing, Testing… “ CommonCore testing group wages aggressive campaign against critics on social media,” according to The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss. ” (That giant: Pearson , of course.). Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs for credit !
Via Education Week : “Even When States Revise Standards, the Core of the CommonCore Remains.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “Are You Getting a Pay Bump For Student Completion? ” “Whatever Happened To MOOCs ?”
Pearson has added Snap chairman Michael Lynton to its board of directors. MOOCs are out. Performance on PISA Decline Because of CommonCore? .” Russia beat the US on an international reading test. Go, School Sports Team! Via ESPN : “How a midlevel school became The University of Adidas at Louisville.”
Via Education Week : “New Test Pitched As Alternative to CommonCore-Focused High School Exams.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “The Future of MOOCs Might Not Be Free ,” suggests Education Week’s Market Brief with an observation that many of us made back in 2012.
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ MOOCs : A Postmortem” by Jonathan Rees. Meanwhile, Campus Technology offers “7 Tips for Listing MOOCs on Your Résumé.” ” Story says “could be.” ” Tech PR gonna PR. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.
” I’m a little surprised that either of these women – both Democrats, both CommonCore supporters, if nothing else – would be under serious consideration. is disappointed in CommonCore. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” The book was racist.
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