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The authors point to what they consider to be four crises in education:

• "a 40-year ideological experiment in marketisation and neoconservatism."
• "teacher recruitment and retention are in a downward spiral."
• "the glaring lack of a... curricular policy to teach about climate change"
• "the ways in which Covid has increased educational inequalities"

It seems a bit like an odd selection,...

This post covers some uninteresting information about 2U's market cap and the possible billion dollar acquisition of the company by...

This is a good paper that looks at the phenomenon of 'social information processing' and suggests that a study of the role of argumentation between proponents of diverse perspectives may be more important than is currently believed. Diversity, writes Renne Pesonen, is an...

Some good thoughts here about the relation between scale and edtech. "Access is a problem of scale at one level and I am committed to working on that but I increasingly hear reductive views of digital learning limited to students navigating personalised pathways through high-end content and teachers interpreting that learning through analytics. This seems devoid of any...

George Veletsianos quotes at length from a report written last year by UNESCO's International Commission on the Futures of Education, Reimagining our futures together: a new social contract for education. His emphasis is on the dialogue that needs to happen in education and "the...