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Read Dr. Boston’s posts offering his insights into higher education, K-12 education, and technology.

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Pell Runners: Is Financial Aid Fraud Too Easy?

April 23, 2025

A list of papers I reviewed for a future post about Parent PLUS loans surfaced an eye-opening sentence about financial aid fraud from a 2022 article published in the American…

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Deconstructing and Reconstructing Sources Using NotebookLM

April 10, 2025

I use an AI-related tool daily. Last October, I wrote about NotebookLM, Google’s personalized AI collaborator. In that article, I described my activities of loading links to previously published blog…

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The Ongoing Debate About Online Course Pricing

March 28, 2025

For nearly two decades, I led the online American Public University System through the early, medium, and high enrollment growth stages of online courses and degree programs. In those early…

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The Impact of AI on the Workforce and Training/Upskilling

March 24, 2025

By now, it should be evident that generative AI tools will impact the future of the workforce. Predictions of the extent of the impact vary widely. There are several papers…

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Tuition Increases Continue to Support the Thesis that College Is…

March 11, 2025

I frequently write and speak about the higher-than-inflationary college tuition increases since the late 1970’s. More specifically, how the decision by Harvard’s Board in 1978 to increase Harvard’s undergraduate tuition…

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Generative AI Agents – Game Changers?

March 3, 2025

(The article below was written by Stanford University’s STORM application. A summary of the article was included in my previous blog post. I decided it was worthwhile to post the…

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AI Agents: Trendy, Misunderstood, or the Next Frontier

February 26, 2025

Generative AI’s release to the world less than three years ago triggered a frenzy of new “products,” as well as predictions and criticisms of the technology. Over the past year,…

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U.S. Copyright Office Issues Two Reports About Artificial Intelligence

February 21, 2025

The U.S. Copyright Office is charged by statute with administering the United States’ copyright laws. It is housed in the Library of Congress, and its mission is “to promote creativity…

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Regular LLM Content Creation Versus LLM Reasoning

February 14, 2025

Artificial intelligence tools, particularly those offered by well-funded companies like OpenAI, are constantly changing. Some of those changes occur thanks to the software’s machine learning design. Other changes are based…

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Artificial Intelligence/AI

Deconstructing and Reconstructing Sources Using NotebookLM

April 10, 2025
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The Impact of AI on the Workforce and Training/Upskilling

March 24, 2025
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Generative AI Agents – Game Changers?

March 3, 2025
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EdTech

Trends and observations about the intersection of education and technology.

ChatGPT’s Philosophical Thoughts About the Cost of Knowledge

January 27, 2025
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NotebookLM: Another Google Experimental AI

October 14, 2024
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STORM: A Stanford University AI Writing System

October 8, 2024
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Higher Education

The evolution of higher education, from traditional, four-year programs to non-traditional, online approaches.

Pell Runners: Is Financial Aid Fraud Too Easy?

April 23, 2025
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Deconstructing and Reconstructing Sources Using NotebookLM

April 10, 2025
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The Ongoing Debate About Online Course Pricing

March 28, 2025
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Independent Schools

The role of private and public, online universities and online programs in extending educational opportunities to underserved communities.

Private School Enrollment Management: A Planning Guide

August 21, 2024
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Does the Supreme Court Affirmative Action Ruling Apply to Private…

June 5, 2024
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Private School Tuition Discounting: A Sound Business Model?

February 21, 2024
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K-12

Emerging theories, practices, and outcomes in American grade schools and high schools.

AI Recommended Publications and Links Related to Education

January 22, 2025
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WICHE Projection of High School Graduates

December 18, 2024
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Dual Enrollment Continues to Grow Nationally

September 25, 2024
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Miscellaneous

Dr. Boston’s reflections on emerging trends and other hard-to-categorize topics.

The American Economy in 2024: An Overseas Perspective

October 25, 2024
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7 Tips for Success – A Note From A Friend

July 19, 2023
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The AI Revolution | Are Humans Being Replaced?

July 17, 2023
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Penrose Far West

November 6, 2024
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The Future of Space Studies Programs and Space Exploration

April 17, 2020
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Student Persistence

New insights into why students drop out of college—and how to improve their chances of completion.

How Many of 39 Million Americans With Some College But…

April 7, 2023
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National Student Clearinghouse First Look Fall 2022 Enrollment Report

October 24, 2022
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Credit Accumulation and Completion Rates Among First Year Students

August 8, 2022
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Uncategorized

Dual Enrollment Continues to Grow Nationally

September 25, 2024
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Meeting the Grand Challenges to Higher Ed: External Competition

August 26, 2020
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An Inspired Teacher Uses Entrepreneurship to Inspire Her Students

July 16, 2014
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Workforce

How to prepare college graduates for future workforce opportunities as well as position employees for a lifetime of reskilling and upskilling.

Graduate Degrees: Risky and Unequal Paths to the Top

October 4, 2024
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Texas Community Colleges: Year Two Funding Incentives

August 13, 2024
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The College Wage Premium: Education and Lifetime Earnings

August 5, 2024
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Subjects of Interest

Artificial Intelligence/AI

EdTech

Higher Education

Independent Schools

K-12

Science

Student Persistence

Workforce