Wally Boston, Author at Wally Boston

AI: What Will It Mean for American Education Tomorrow?

Posted on March 29, 2021 (July 3, 2026)

Last month, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) issued a report about the potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on education. Authored by Dirk Van Damme, Head of the OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation, the report begins by mentioning the collapse of the financial system in 2008, the pandemic, and climate change. It also states that the most disruptive change in the 21st century will be AI. […]

Why Is It So Difficult to Implement Educational Technology?

Posted on March 25, 2021 (December 5, 2024)

In his recently published blog article for Inside Higher Ed, University of Texas professor Steven Mintz asks a pivotal question: “Can educational technology ever live up to its promise?” […]

Reasons for College Admissions: “It’s the Economics, Stupid!”

Posted on March 23, 2021 (October 17, 2023)

“It’s the economy, stupid!” was Bill Clinton strategist James Carville’s directive to keep his presidential campaign staffers on message during his successful 1992 run for the presidency. While I chose not to use a paraphrase of that slogan in my recent post about Caitlin Flanagan’s article stating that private schools in the U.S. have become obscene, perhaps I should have. […]

Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World

Posted on March 22, 2021 (February 18, 2025)

For years, my typical method for finding a book to read has been to read a review or see it listed as a source in a paper or other publication. While that’s my typical method, it’s not my favorite. My favorite is to wander through a bookstore, peruse the latest releases shelf and one or two specialized areas, and find a book that looks interesting enough to purchase.

The recent pandemic minimized my frequency of finding books through perusal. With an hour to kill on Saturday before meeting one of my daughters for lunch, I opted for a short visit to a college town bookstore. In the new releases section, I stumbled across the book Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World by Cade Metz. […]

Building Back American Job Training in the Post-COVID Era

Posted on March 18, 2021 (October 17, 2023)

In a well-written article published by the Fordham Institute, the National Center on Education and the Economy’s President Emeritus Marc Tucker writes about the dual workforce emerging in America after the pandemic. […]

The Merits of Private Schools and Fixing Our Public Schools

Posted on March 16, 2021 (November 4, 2024)

In the April 2021 online issue of The Atlantic, Caitlin Flanagan’s article “Private Schools Have Become Truly Obscene” has elicited some competing responses. If the title alone was not jarring, the subtitle, “Elite schools breed entitlement, entrench inequality – and then pretend to be engines of social change,” clearly indicates the points to be made by the writer. […]

Coronavirus: Lessons That We’ve Learned, One Year Later

Posted on March 15, 2021 (July 1, 2024)

The first coronavirus article on my blog was published on March 5, 2020. I asked our program director for Public Health, Dr. Samer Koutoubi, M.D., Ph.D., to write a guest post about the effect of the pandemic on our schools. […]

Missouri Online – Is It an Entrepreneur or a Cannibal?

Posted on March 11, 2021 (November 4, 2024)

Lindsay McKenzie’s article in Tuesday’s Inside Higher Ed provided me with the news that the University of Missouri System had launched a new online arm called Missouri Online. […]

Is a Better Definition of Outcomes Needed at Community Colleges?

Posted on March 9, 2021 (June 12, 2024)

For the better part of the last decade, there have been proposals for free education at community colleges. As recently as December 23, President Biden pledged to provide tuition-free community college for all. […]

The Future of Work after COVID-19: What Will Happen Next?

Posted on March 8, 2021 (October 17, 2023)

It’s been a year since most U.S. colleges and businesses shifted to an online, study from home or work from home mode in order to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Our work and home lives were disrupted, and it’s safe to say that until the country reaches the herd immunity level, our disrupted state will continue. […]

Author: Wally Boston

Posts by Wally Boston

AI: What Will It Mean for American Education Tomorrow?

Why Is It So Difficult to Implement Educational Technology?

Reasons for College Admissions: “It’s the Economics, Stupid!”

Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World

Building Back American Job Training in the Post-COVID Era

The Merits of Private Schools and Fixing Our Public Schools

Coronavirus: Lessons That We’ve Learned, One Year Later

Missouri Online – Is It an Entrepreneur or a Cannibal?

Is a Better Definition of Outcomes Needed at Community Colleges?

The Future of Work after COVID-19: What Will Happen Next?

Subjects of Interest

Artificial Intelligence/AI

EdTech

Higher Education

Independent Schools

K-12

Science

Student Persistence

The Future of Work

Workforce