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Language, Tax Status, and Education
The language we use matters when discussing the various players in the education ecosystem. Labels are never neutral, but rather carry with them a history of judgments, debates, and conclusions.
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6 Questions On The Overlap Between K-12 and Higher Ed
I don't know much about K-12 education. Beyond the fact that I have two kids (8th and 10th grade) in our local public middle school and high school, and that I spent 12 years in public primary and secondary schools, my knowledge of the sector is embarrassingly skimpy.
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3 EdTech Lessons From the Demise of The Daily
On Monday we learned that The Daily, News Corp's mobile app only newspaper, will cease publication on December 15th. From the publication's start in February of 2011, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp invested $30 million in creating this short lived digital newspaper.
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3 Higher Ed Innovation Leadership Skills I Need to Develop
Read enough books on behavioral economics and you will internalize the observation that we consistently overrate our own skills and abilities. Wikipedia even has an entry for this phenomenon under the heading "illusory superiority."
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"Why Good (EdTech) People Can't Get Jobs"
If you have led or participated in a search lately you know how difficult, time demanding, and stressful the process can be. We all complain about the challenge of finding the "right" person for our open positions.
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Considering "Consider the Fork"
Reading Consider the Fork is somehow the perfect companion to watching "Downton Abbey," in that they are both very much an upper-class British experience.
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Why I'll Give Most of My $425 Million PowerBall Jackpot Winnings to Higher Ed
Don't even bother buying a PowerBall ticket for tonight's $425 million drawing. I've already purchased the winning ticket.
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3 E-Learning Lessons from "One Second After"
Normally I don't read books that feature an introductory chapter from New Gingrich, but I'm very happy that in this case my liberal filter bubble was successfully breached.